Back To Basics: Rolf Gardiner, H. J. Massingham and ‘A Kinship in Husbandry’

Rural History

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 85-108

  Moore Colyer, R J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0003219841     PISSN: 09567933     EISSN: 14740656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956793300002284     Document Type: Article

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