TRUST SOCIOLOGY RECORDS

Workers at Staverton, about 1928Trust Sociology records consist of reports and correspondence relating to the Dartington Hall Studies in Rural Sociology series of publications, and other sociological studies connected with Dartington. The records include various Trustees' proposals for the research and writing of an early history of the Dartington Hall experiment, including correspondence of Maurice Ash. Also of interest is the research undertaken by Kirk and Frankenberg on the impact of new industrial development in the villages and towns of the Torbay area, and reports to Trustees of the Farm Management Research Department by John Nalson. There are correspondence and reports of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, documenting the involvement of Leonard Elmhirst and collaboration with the Dartington Hall estate. There is also information on rural social research conducted by scholars including anthropologist Adam Curle at Dartington; W M Williams, who undertook a survey of rural industries; John Saville on rural depopulation; and David St John Thomas on rural transport issues. Other correspondence concerns publications by E W Martin, Isabel Emmett, Zoltan P Dienes, and publications edited by H A T Child.

Lastly, the series contains correspondence, memoranda and other material relating to the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey (1941-1944). Dartington Hall Arts Administrator, Christopher Martin, was the chief local investigator appointed for the Social Reconstruction Survey in the Devonshire area, and there are reports in this series by Martin and others.