Philip Conford

Philip Conford (b. 1948) holds the posts of Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. He is a leading authority on the history of the British organic movement, which he has studied for more than a quarter of a century, and his book The Origins of the Organic Movement was published in 2001. He has contributed regularly to the journal The Organic Grower and to the Soil Association's magazine Living Earth, and is on the...See more

Philip Conford (b. 1948) holds the posts of Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. He is a leading authority on the history of the British organic movement, which he has studied for more than a quarter of a century, and his book The Origins of the Organic Movement was published in 2001. He has contributed regularly to the journal The Organic Grower and to the Soil Association's magazine Living Earth, and is on the editorial board of the Association's twice-yearly journal Mother Earth. See less