ABSTRACT
Without Adolf Hitler the Dartington company might well have collapsed in 1939 or 1940. If all the economic experiments had suffered such negative results as that, the school and arts departments might have been brought down too. Travel reflected and contributed to their many-sidedness, their Renaissance quality, and mattered a lot to Dartington. In the immediate post-war years they still had the house at Westbury – the decision to sell it was not taken until there was a family conference about it at Dartington in 1951. It is clear enough that some of the innovations made at Dartington have ceased to be so, by becoming general practice. Primary schools have in short grown much more like Dartington than they were in the 1920s. Children have been demobbed from their regiments. In the arts it is not only the leisure of many people living at or near Dartington which has been transformed over the fifty years.
