A group of five talks by W. G. Hoskins
4 — ' The Rash Assault'
In these talks Dr. Hoskins, who is Reader in Economnc History in the University of Oxford, is concerned with the various ways by which man, from Saxon to Victorian times, has altered the shape of the natural landscape.
' Is then no nook of Bnglash ground secure from cash assault? ' Wordsworth demanded when the builders of railways began to manipulate the landscape on a grand scale. The railway engineers, took over from two generations of canal builders, and in his talk Dr. Hoskins considers the impact of botih canal and railway construction on the rural scene.