Did farm workers in the early 1900s read literature? This reading circle explores the connection between literature and farming, between words and revolt, through poetry and fiction printed in farm workers' trade papers.
Across three sessions, researchers from the Workers' Museum project on forgotten cultural and literary history in the trade press lead discussions of the political literature of farming, from the past to the present. The first session looks at literary content from the papers Tyende-Bladet and Landarbejderen, with both classics and curiosities on the reading list. The later sessions follow farm literature into the 1970s and up to the present, ending with Malte Tellerup's novel Hedeselskabet, discussed in light of current cultural debates and political reforms of Danish agriculture.
