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Paedagogica Historica
International Journal of the History of Education
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A Northern Federation? Henry Rolf Gardiner and British and European Youth

Pages 306-324 | Published online: 19 Aug 2010

  • Gardiner , R. 1943 . England Herself; Ventures in Rural Restoration London ISSN 00305230 (print)/ISSN 1477-674 (online)/03/030305-20 © 2003 Stichting Paedagogica Historica DOI: 10.1080/0030923032000076546
  • Brace , M. 1961 . The Coming of the Welfare State 192 London
  • Ensor , R. 1966 . England, 1870-1940 514 London
  • 1904 . A. Watt Smyth, Physical Deterioration, Its Causes and Cure London See, for example
  • Pryke . "The popularity of nationalism" ” . 310 – 313 .
  • Marwick . "Youth in Britain" ” . 40 – 41 .
  • Selten , P. 1993 . "The Religious Formation of Youth: Catholic Youth Movements in the Netherlands from 1900 to 1941" . Paedagogica Historien , XXIX : 166 – 186 .
  • Laqueur , W. 1984 . Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement London with an introduction by R.H.S. Crossman
  • Wolschke-Bulmahn , J. 1992 . "The Fear of the New Landscape: Aspects of the Perception of Landscape in the German Youth Movement between 1900 and 1933 and its influence on Landscape Planning" . Journal of Architectural and Planning Research , IX ( 1 ) : 35 – 42 .
  • Gardiner , R. 1947 . "A Northumbrian Foray, 1927" ” . In Wessex: Letters from Springhead , Ser.2, No.3
  • Id., "The Story of the Musikheim", Ibid.
  • 1948 . "Hitler's Reich and the Real Germany" ” . In Wessex: Letters from Springhead , Ser.2, No.4 Id.
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  • Hargrave , J. Brief history of the Kibbo Kift Kinship , University of Cambridge Library . unpublished typescript, RG C6/1/24
  • Wilkinson . "English Youth Movements" ” . 18 – 19 .
  • Wilkinson . "English Youth Movements" 20 The name was derived from Anglo-Saxon, "proof of great strength". Although the Kindred was regarded by many as a gathering of eccentric cranks, its Advisory Council boasted the names of Patrick Geddes, Julian Huxley, H.G. Wells, Maurice Maeterlink and Rabindranath Tagore
  • Hargrave , J. 1927 . Confessions of Oie Kibbo Kift 18 – 20 . London
  • Hargrave, Brief history of the Kibbo Kift Kinship.
  • Springhall . Youth, Empire and Society 110 Attendance at the annual camp in 1924 was 236
  • Hargrave . Confessions 100
  • Drakeford . Social Movements 69 – 70 .
  • Laqueur . Young Germany 137
  • Paul , L. 1951 . Angry Young Men 53 – 54 . London
  • Wilkinson . "English Youth Movements" ” . 20
  • Throughout the course of a long life after his Kibbo Kift days, Hargrave published a wide range of writings besides working as a faith healer, creating the animal character "Bushy" for the Daily Sketch in 1952 and inventing the Hargrave Automatic Navigator for Aircraft in 1937. Together with books on Suvla Bay, Social Credit and the medieval mystic Paracelsus, he wrote six novels which received widespread and varying critical attention. Summer Time Ends (Constable, London, 1935), a kaleidoscopic panorama of English life and a paean of praise for the value of the doctrine of Social Credit as a means of resolving many modern dilemmas, was applauded by Ezra Pound, James Agate and William Carlos Williams among others (Drakeford, Social Movements, p. 84; Times obituary July 17, 1982).
  • Finlay . "John Hargrave, the Green Shirts" ” . 58 – 59 . By the 1930s the Kibbo Kift Kindred had been virtually absorbed into the Social Credit movement and its woodcraft activities came to an end
  • Gardiner , R. 1959 . "Lionel Heibert (1870-1919), Scouting and the First World War" ” . In Wessex: letters from Springhead , Ser.4, No.2
  • Laqueur . Young Germany 241
  • Kershaw , I. 1933-1945 . Hitler Besides Georg Götsch (1895-1956), Director of the Musikheim, and Ernst Buske (d. 1930), Gardiner's contacts included the Islamicist and Prussian Education Minister Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933), Eugen Rosenstock (1888-1944) who left Germany in 1933 to teach in Vermont, and Adolph Reichwein (1898-1944) whose implication in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler led to his execution. The socialist Reichwein was a member of the "Kreisau Circle" who had rejected Nazism from an early stage. They drew their inspiration from the German youth movement and Christian philosophies, looking forward to a future in which national sovereignty would give way to a federal Europe
  • 2000 . Nemesis 66 London
  • Gardiner , R. and Rocholl , H. , eds. 1928 . Britain and Germany. A frank discussion instigated by members of the younger generation 130 London
  • Charnley , J. 1990 . Blackshiris and Roses London Darwin Fox believed that even though little of practical value had emerged from the polemics of Youth, it had provoked and stimulated and in offering more than the normal "pedantry and slosh" it had been a fine achievement. S. Darwin Fox to Gardiner, 10 August 1924 (Rolf Gardiner MSS, University of Cambridge, C6/2/11). Fox was interned as a potential fifth columnist during World War II
  • Gardiner , Rolf . 1959 . Wessex: Letters from Springhead , Ser.4, No.2 Perhaps too powerful. Douglas Redshaw accused Gardiner of "Lawrence-worship", and while admitting that the malady might pass, warned him against being over-influenced by "our mutual friend Hargrave" (Rolf Gardiner MSS, University of Cambridge, C5/4). Lawrence and Gardiner met for the first time in London in 1926 and Gardiner stayed with the author at Les Diablerets in the winter of 1928. Lawrence wrote at least nineteen letters to Gardiner, some of considerable length. The correspondence petered out in 1928 due, as Gardiner readily admitted, to his own busyness and neglect
  • Gardiner , R. 1959 . "D.H. Lawrence and the Youth Movements of the Twenties" ” . In Wessex: Letters from Springhead , Ser.4. No.2
  • Boulton , J-T. , Boulton , M.H. and Lacy , G.M. 1991 . The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Vols. V, VI, VII Vols. V , Cambridge personal communication, Mrs Rosalind Richards (née Gardiner)
  • Gardiner , Rolf . 1938 . "A Brief Account of the Travelling Morrice" ” . In North Sea and Baltic , New Series, 4 Gardiner's first Youth editorial, entitled Vox Juventatis had sung the praises of Lawrence while concurrently attacking the Bloomsbury set and, in particular, John Maynard Keynes. For morris dancing, see
  • 1937 . "The Triple Function of Work Camps and Work Service in Europe" ” . In North Sea and Baltic , New Series, 2 and for work-camps, Id.
  • Drakeford . Social Movements 71 Gardiner and Hargrave appear to have virtually severed all connections until 1964 when the former sent Hargrave a copy of R.G. Stapledon's Human Ecology as a seventieth birthday gift. Three years later Gardiner invited Hargrave to his Springhead estate in Dorset to discuss old times. After initially demurring Hargrave finally accepted and, one fondly imagines, the two men were able to heal old wounds (Rolf Gardiner MSS, University of Cambridge, C6/1/34-58)
  • R. Gardiner, "D.H. Lawrence and the Youth Movements of the Twenties".
  • Gardiner , R. 1972 . "Meditations on the Future of Northern Europe" ” . In Water Springing from the Ground: An Anthology of the Writings of Rolf Gardiner , Edited by: Best , A. Springhead .
  • Gardiner . England Herself 32
  • Id., "Northumbrian Foray", p. 115.
  • Id., England Herself, p. 44.
  • Webb , J. 1981 . The Occult Establishment 118 Glasgow
  • Gardiner , R. 1957 . "Springhead: A centre for Rural Restoration in "Wessex" . Journal of The Soil Association , IX ( 11 ) : 3 – 16 . In the last year of his life Gardiner was made an Honorary Member of the Institute of Landscape Architects and was awarded (as part of the Europe Prize for Landscape Husbandry) the Peter Joseph Lenné Gold Medal for services to European youth, for his forestry work in Dorset and Malawi and his contribution to the European Working Party for Landscape Husbandry which he had founded in 1963. For Gardiner's Springhead estate, see
  • 1940-41 . "Seven Years at Springhead" ” . In North Sea and Baute , New Series, 7 Id., Gardiner and his wife Marabel spent the first year of their marriage in 1932-33 at Darlington Hall where he studied forestry and Marabel followed a secretarial course (personal communication, Mrs. Rosalind Richards)
  • Gardiner , R. 1983 . "On the functions of a Rural University" ” . In North Sea and Baltic Special Issue
  • 1940-41 . "Estates as Centres of Rural Reconstruction" ” . In North Sea and Baltic Id, New Series, 7
  • Delavenay , E. and Keith , W.J. 1974 . "Mr Rolf Gardiner, 'The English Neo-Nazi'; an Exchange" . D.H. Lawrence Review , VII : 292 – 293 .
  • 1965 . A Knot of Roots London By his own admission, Lymington was very lucky to avoid wartime internment (see his autobiography
  • Moore-Colyer , R.J. 1999 . "Sir George Stapledon (1882-1960), and the landscape of Britain" . Environment and History , V ( 2 ) : 221 – 236 . For Stapledon, see
  • Moore-Colyer , R.J. 2001 . "Back to Basics: Rolf Gardiner, H.J. Massingham and a Kinship in Husbandry" . Rural History , XII ( 1 ) : 85 – 108 . For details of the involvement of these men with Gardiner, see
  • 2001 . "Fight the Future. How the contemporary campaigns of the UK organic movement have arisen from the composting of the past" . Sodologia Ruralis , XLI ( 1 ) : 131 – 145 . M. Reid has also written of the Kinship in Husbandry in
  • Roberts , A. 1994 . Eminent Churchillians London For Arthur Bryant's Nazi and fascist sympathies and his extreme good fortune in avoiding internment for treason in 1940, see, Roberts pulls no punches in deriding Bryant as "a supreme toady, fraudulent scholar and humbug" (p. 288)
  • Moore-Colyer , R.J. 2001 . "Rolf Gardiner, English Patriot and the Council for the Church and Countryside" . Agricultural History Review , XLIX ( 2 ) : 186 – 209 .

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