Two new contributions to the series Video Essays in Rural History have been published. The accompanying text to the video essays inlcuding the script, references and indications for further reading can be found on the series’ website.
ARH/ERHFA Video Essay No. 3
The video essay “Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960” by Catharine A. Wilson enters the heart of neighbourhood through the study of cooperative work and is based on farm diaries accessible at the Rural Diary Archive.
ARH/ERHFA Video Essay No. 4
In their video essay “Films, Farmers and Machines” Sven Lefèvre and Yves Segers analyse a 1955 film from the Belgian cinematographer Jean Harlez (1924-), which was used by the Belgian ministry of Agriculture to promote the cooperative purchase of agricultural machines.