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Professor Alun Howkins

Research Affiliate    

Alun is Professor of Social History with research interest in the history of rural areas, especially the rural poor. Alun has written on a wide range of subjects from the paintings of Turner to the politics of the 1930s Communist Party.

Contact Details

Location:   Arts B356
Telephone:   01273 877129
Email:   a.j.howkins@sussex.ac.uk


Current Research Projects

The enclosure of villages to the East of Oxford in the period 1850-1900

The survival of farm service in English and Welsh agriculture


Recent Publications

'The Death of Rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900'   Howkins, A.
Routledge (2003).


Teaching

Link to Alun Howkin's University of Sussex web page

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