Henry Rolf Gardiner was an English rural revivalist, helping to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing.
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25 Facts About Rolf Gardiner
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Rolf Gardiner founded groups significant in the British history of organic farming.
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Rolf Gardiner was said to have sympathised with Nazism and participated in inter-war far right politics.
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Rolf Gardiner organised summer camps with music, dance and community aims across class and cultures.
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Rolf Gardiner's forestry methods were far ahead of their time and he was a founder member of The Soil Association.
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Rolf Gardiner was born in Fulham the son of Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner and his wife Hedwig, nee Von Rosen.
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Rolf Gardiner was educated at West Downs school from 1913, Rugby School, and then at Bedales School.
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Rolf Gardiner was a student at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Kibbo Kift youth group.
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Rolf Gardiner founded the Travelling Morrice in 1924, with Arthur Heffer, having taken a team of English dancers to Germany in 1922, and in 1923 met a few of the surviving dancers while walking in the Cotswolds with the poet Christopher Scaife.
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Rolf Gardiner took over Gore Farm in Dorset, bought by Henry Balfour Gardiner in 1924, from 1927, and continued what became a large-scale forestation project, based on training he had received at Dartington Hall, with conifers and beech trees.
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Rolf Gardiner married Mariabella Honor Hodgkin in 1932; she was the daughter of the Irish fabric designer Florence Hodgkin.
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Rolf Gardiner was a founder member of The Soil Association and applied organic principles to both farm and forest.
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Rolf Gardiner was active in the 1950s in dealing with colonial officials, with a view to conserving the underlying land.
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Rolf Gardiner was editor of the magazine Youth from 1923, when still a student.
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Rolf Gardiner published articles by John Hargrave with whom he had associated in the Kibbo Kift.
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Rolf Gardiner expressly rejected overtures made to him by members of Mosley's party, which at the time was gaining ground in rural areas in response to the effects of the depression and tithe collection on farming.
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In 1929 Rolf Gardiner was writing with approval in the Times Literary Supplement of the Jugendbewegung and its anti-scientific outlook.
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Rolf Gardiner debated the German Youth Movement in 1934 with Leslie Paul, in the pages of The Adelphi.
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Rolf Gardiner reportedly expressed anti-Semitic views from 1933, writing first in German.
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Rolf Gardiner's thinking moved from a belief in the honest value of work, to connection and belonging, and ultimately to a vision of the interplay between the health of soil, animals, crops and people.
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Rolf Gardiner was a member of the English Mistery, and then of the English Array, formed in 1936.
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Rolf Gardiner later wrote for the periodical New Pioneer set up in December 1938 by Lord Lymington and John Beckett, as a pro-German and anti-Semitic organ.
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