The inter-war years were difficult times for farmers and farm workers. When the wartime controls were summarily removed after 1921, workers continued to consider themselves betrayed by the government.
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Further reading
- Howkins, A., The Death of Rural England, A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900 (London: Routledge, 2003)
- Whetham, E., The Agrarian History of England and Wales Vol. 8, 1914-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)