JOHN W Y HIGGS

Education

Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, 1941-1943, Master of Arts. Exeter College, Oxford University, 1946-1948, Master of Arts. Spoken languages: English, French.

Career

Deputy Director, Human Resources, Institutions & Agrarian Reform Division & Chief of Education & Extension Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations since 1971. Senior Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1969-1973. Estates Bursar & Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1961-1969.

Lecturer in Agr Development, Oxford University, 1957-1968. Keeper of Museum of English Rural Life & Lecturer in History of Agriculture, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 1951-1957. Lecturer in Farm Mechanization, University of Reading, 1948-1951.

Research Assistant, Agr Economy Research Institute, Institution, Oxford University, 1946-1948.

Works

• Other Work

  • Structural Reaction to Vertical Integration in Europe, 1966. People In the Countryside, 1966. The Land: A Visual History of Modern Britain, 1964.
    
    Co-author: Report of a Survey of Problems in the Mechanization of Native Agriculture in Tropical African Colonies, 1950. Editor: Volume Six, Agrarian History of England & Wales.

Membership

President, International Association of Agr Museums. President, British Agr History Society. Government, Royal Agr Society of England.

Farmers Club, London. Leander Club, London.

Interests

• Farming.