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Agriculture 1921-1939

Three-horse plough team at work in the 1930s.

In the 1930s, before the mechanisation of farming, plough teams were a familiar sight in rural Britain.
©Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

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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Halcyon days

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Agriculture Policy. 20 October 1919 (PDF, 0.926MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Guaranteed Minimum Price. 20 October 1919 (PDF, 0.926MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Credit Facilities for Agriculture. 20 October 1919 (PDF, 0.926MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9. Compulsory Powers over Cultivation of Land. 20 October 1919 (PDF, 0.926MB)

Certain General Advantages of the Agricultural Policy. 20 October 1919 (PDF, 0.926MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Agriculture.18 May 1920 (PDF, 1.776MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Agriculture Bill. 10 August 1920 (PDF, 6.899MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Agriculture Bill. 16 December 1920 (PDF, 1.505MB)

Repeal of the Agriculture Act

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Agricultural Policy. 14 November 1923 (PDF, 2.321MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Agricultural Policy. 12 November 1923 (PDF, 0.394MB)

Consolidation and the return of subsidy

Cabinet Conclusion 11. Agricultural Policy. 29 March 1933 (PDF, 4.292MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9. Agricultural Policy. 6 May 1931 (PDF, 8.522MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Agricultural Policy. 4 June 1931 (PDF, 2.239MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Committee on Agricultural Policy. 7 March 1930 (PDF, 4.386 MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Committee on Agricultural Policy. 17 March 1930 (PDF, 0.374MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Home Wheat Quota Scheme. Date 13 April 1931 (PDF, 1.077MB)

Search using Agriculture Act Repeal of the Agriculture Act

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)

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Agriculture 1921-1939
The Agriculture Act, depression and subsidy

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