The Archers in Fact and Fiction
Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire
Summary
will have you laughing and thinking.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction to Academic Archers: The Birth of a New Academic Community (Cara Courage / Nicola Headlam / Peter Matthews)
- The Archers and its Listeners in the Twenty-First Century: Drama, Nostalgia and the Rural Everyday (Lyn Thomas)
- References
- Review by Rob Titchener, Blossom Hill Cottage, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- Rural Voices: What Can Borsetshire Tell Us About Accent Change? (William Barras)
- Borsetshire’s Place in English Dialectology
- Hyper-rhoticity: A Last Gasp of Traditional Borsetshire Speech?
- Tracking Accent Change Over an Individual Speaker’s Lifetime
- Future Research
- References
- Review by Shula Hebden Lloyd, The Stables, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- Tony Archer the Farmer: The Toll of Life as an Agricultural Worker and Changing Technology in Modern Farming (Neil Mansfield / Lauren Morgan)
- Tony Archer’s Tractor
- Farm Health and Safety
- Technological Developments in Agriculture
- References
- Review by Ed Grundy, c/o Neil and Susan Carter, Ambridge View, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- Seeming, Seeming: Othello, The Archers and Rob Titchener (Abi Pattenden)
- Introduction
- Iago and Rob: Perceptive Exploiters
- Reputation
- Unforeseen Consequences
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
- Revenge as Motivation
- Manipulation to the Last
- Reference
- Review by Pat Archer, Bridge Farm, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- An Everyday Story of Dysfunctional Families: Using The Archers in Social Work Education (Helen M. Burrows)
- Introduction
- The Role and Structure of Social Work Education
- So What Can The Archers Teach Social Workers About?
- Learning from Narrative
- The Role of Discussion in Developing Learning
- A Final Point
- References
- Review by Kirsty Miller, Willow Farm, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- Dig The Archers: What Community Archaeological Excavations Can Achieve in Places like Ambridge (Carenza Lewis / Clemency Cooper)
- Digging Ambridge
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Review by Jennifer Aldridge (transcript of interview conducted via Skype)
- The Medieval World of The Archers, William Morris and the Problem with Class Struggle (Philippa Byrne)
- Introduction
- William Morris’s Middle Ages
- Meaningful Labour, Meaningless Work
- Rome and Route B
- References
- Review by Professor Jim Lloyd (University of Stirling, retired), Greenacres, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- Mapping Ambridge (Chris Perkins)
- The History of Mapping Ambridge
- Using the Maps
- Missing from Ambridge …
- Conclusions
- References
- Review by Jennifer Aldridge, Home Farm, Ambridge
- Lynda Snell, Class Warrior: Social Class and Community Activism in Rural Borsetshire (Peter Matthews)
- Community Activism as Classed Practice
- Lynda Snell is Middle Class
- Lynda Snell as Place-maker
- Lynda Snell as Class Warrior
- References
- Review by Lynda Snell, Ambridge Hall, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- The Death of Heather Pritchard: An Everyday Story of Inadequate Social Care (Jo Moriarty)
- Social Networks and Ageing
- Social Care: What It Is and Who Pays For It
- Joe, Heather and the Care Act 2014
- ‘Ageing in Place’
- Discussion
- References
- Review by Ruth Archer, Bridge Farm, Ambridge
- From Dr Locke’s Boundaries to Carol’s Confession: On Medical Ethics in The Archers (Deborah Bowman)
- Whither Medical Ethics in The Archers?
- Dr Richard Locke and the Problem of Boundaries
- Carol’s Confession
- Conclusion
- References
- Review by Dr Richard Locke, Keeper’s Cottage, Ambridge
- Cider with Grundy: On the Community Orchard in Ambridge (Samantha Walton)
- Cider with Grundy
- Romanticism
- Georgic
- Save Our Orchards!
- Pastoral
- New Traditions
- References
- Review by Professor Jim Lloyd (University of Stirling, retired), Greenacres, Ambridge, Borsetshire
- The Dis/appearance of Disability in The Archers … or Why Bethany had to go to Birmingham (Katherine Runswick-Cole)
- An Introduction to (Critical) Disability Studies
- Enter Critical Disability Studies
- Cultural Studies and Narrative Prosthesis
- Narrative Prosthesis and The Archers
- Darrell Makepeace
- Dan Hebden Lloyd
- And so Bethany had to go to Birmingham …
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Review by Vicky Tucker, Birmingham
- Conclusion: Academic Archers as a Fine-Detailed, Open, Cross-Disciplinary Space (Nicola Headlam / Cara Courage / Peter Matthews)
- Twitterati
- Podcasts
- Editors and Scriptwriters
- Helen and Rob
- References
- Review by Elizabeth Pargetter, Lower Loxley Hall, Am Vale, Borsetshire
- Notes on Contributors
- Index of Archers Characters
Figure 1 A comparative vowel plot generated from recordings of Judy Bennett playing Shula Archer/Shula Hebden Lloyd in 1975 and 2015. Plot generated using the NORM online suite (Thomas and Kendall 2007).
Figure 2 A modern 110 HP tractor (left) and a farmer attaching an implement to the PTO (right).
Figure 3 The ‘Land Girl’ posture is still used in modern tractors where controls are still located behind the driver.
Figure 4 Fatalities in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector 2010/11–2014/15 (data from the HSE).
Figure 5 A survey of expert opinion on back pain in agriculture: shaded areas indicate where less than 40 per cent of experts predicted discomfort under the different exposure combinations (Posture Experts (PE), n = 35; Vibration Experts (VE), n = 13; Operator (Farming) Experts (OE), n = 22). Figure reproduced from Morgan and Mansfield (2014) with permission.
Figure 6 Expert opinion of common recommendations for reducing risk for lower back pain from occupational exposures with trunk rotation and WBV exposure: (Operator (Farming) Experts (OE), n = 23; Vibration Experts (VE), n = 13; Posture Experts (PE), n = 9). Figure reproduced from Morgan and Mansfield (2014) with permission.
Figure 7 Ambridge test pits 2016.
Figure 8 Prehistoric (800,000 BC–43 AD) finds in Ambridge (left). Roman (43 AD–410 AD) finds in Ambridge (right). ← vii | viii →
Figure 9 Early Anglo-Saxon (mid-fifth–eighth century AD) finds in Ambridge (left). Late Anglo-Saxon (ninth–eleventh century AD) finds in Ambridge (right).
Figure 10 High Medieval (twelfth–mid-fourteenth century AD) finds in Ambridge.
Figure 11 Late Medieval (mid-fourteenth–mid-sixteenth century AD) finds in Ambridge (left). Post-Medieval (late sixteenth–late eighteenth century AD) finds in Ambridge (right).
Figure 12 Victorian finds in Ambridge.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 166
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781787071193
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781787071209
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781787073050
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781787073067
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2017 (October)
- Keywords
- Radio drama, soap opera and media Research communities and impact The Archers, Radio 4 and listenership radio drama Radio 4 The Archers Radio
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. VIII, 166 pp., 2 b/w ill., 14 fig.
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