ABSTRACT
A study of conservation made in different historical periods would inevitably
throw up quite different themes and emphases. So, for example, a cursory look
at books produced on conservation in the early to mid 1970s would reveal books
with such emotive titles as Goodbye Britain (Aldous 1975) and The Rape of
Britain (Amery and Cruikshank 1975). Just reading these titles would suggest
that conservation was, at the time, a contentious and hard-fought-over issue.
