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1. Roots -- 2. Shoots -- 3. Agricultural education -- 4. Wander-lust -- 5. London interlude -- 6. Superphosphate -- 7. A small legacy -- 8. Devon -- 9. An interesting south-coast farm -- 10. Farming and money -- 11. Another Cobbett -- 12. The land and the people -- 13. Pigs and pen -- 14. A farmer's philosophy -- 15. War -- 16. 18B/2732 -- 17. J.J. Zeal -- 18. The Rural Reconstruction Association -- 19. Church and countryside -- 20. Untouchable -- 21. Through the tunnel -- 22. The organic movement -- 23. A young plant of great promise -- 24. Resurrection of the RRA -- 25. The Soil Association -- 26. From the ground up -- 27. Rural Economy Ltd. -- 28. Feeding the fifty million -- 29. The whole works -- 30. Return.

This is a biography of Jorian Jenks (1899-1963). Althought the son of an eminent academic; Jenks always longed to be a farmer. Lacking the means to do so, he worked as a farm bailiff and then, in New Zealand, as a government agricultural instructor. Finally, a legacy permitted him to come home and become a tenant farmer. Struggling to survive in the economic depression of the 1930s, he became an author and activist for rural reconstruction. Then, having lost faith in the established parties, he joined the British Union of Fascists. Becoming one of the Blackshirts' leading figures, he was imprisoned without trial during the war. On his release, Jenks returned to the struggle, this time in the cause of ecology, becoming a pioneer of today's organic movement and a founder of the Soil Association.

Reveals the important role of Churches in the politics of Britain and united Europe. This book, linking Christian leaders and politicians, shows the conflicting relationships between national identity and Christian universalism, and between Britain as a one-time world power, a European nation, and junior partner in the 'transatlantic alliance'

The Churches were significant players in the debate surrounding what has been called Britain's "lost opportunity" in the 1940s & 50s to play a leading role in building a united Europe. This article focuses on Christian theological & historical assumptions about humanity as a universal community, the nation & the Church. It examines Christian discourse about the political dimension of these communities & the part that Christianity as a belief system should ideally play between them. It then outlines the "Christendom" narrative, which represented medieval Europe as a model for the future of Europe, as a partial realization of the ideal alignment of power & culture, which in its decay was the cause of international crisis. Finally, some of the points of tension between Christendom, British national identity, & a united Europe among Christians are discussed. 67 References. Adapted from the source document.