January 2021

Allotments 3.

Today’s blog starts with a picture of a delightful allotment plot in Prague, Czech Republic, this copied from the Allotments site on Wikipedia – this site focusses on allotment allocation around the world, giving the whole issue a global perspective. Continuing the 20th century history of English allotments (s.p.b.) we come to the important Land […]

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Allotments 2.

Allocations of land so that ‘all men’ might have their connection with the land has been a recurring theme of radical movements in History, these often alarmed at the growing disconnect between ordinary people and land ownership – this was the case, for example, during the Peasants Revolt of the 14th century, of the ‘Diggers’

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Allotments.

The photo above is taken from Wikipedia and shows a group of boys (presumably the girls were indoors sewing!) in London in 1942 vigorously creating a growing area on part of a bombsite. Such activity was indirectly encouraged by the government by the Second World War version of the Dig for Victory campaign. Official figures

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