Author: Anne HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, 1796-1797
Author: Anne HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Diary of Farmer's Wife, 1796-1797
Author: Anne HughesThe Farmer in England, 1650-1980
Author: Richard W. HoylePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317031989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. They brought together the capital and the technical and management skills which allowed food to be produced. It was they - and not landowners - who employed and supervised labour. They accepted the risk inherent in agriculture, paying largely fixed rents out of fluctuating and uncertain incomes. They are the rural equivalent of the small businessman with his own firm, employing people and producing for markets, sometimes distant ones. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented, but in fact farmers were normally literate and kept records - day books, journals, accounts. This volume goes some way to counter the claim that a history of the farmer cannot be written by showing the range of materials available and the diversity of approaches which can be employed to study the activities and actions of individual farmers from the sixteenth century onwards. Farm records offer invaluable insights into the farming economy which are available nowhere else. In this volume accounts are used in a variety of ways - as the means to access single farms, but also in gross, as a national sample of accounts, to reveal regional variation over time. For the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries the range of sources available increases enormously and farmers - indeed farmer's wives too - emerge as articulate commentators on their own position, using correspondence to outline their difficulties in the First World War. Some even developed second careers as newspaper columnists and journalists. This book focuses attention back on the farmer and, it is hoped, will help to restore farmers to their rightful position in history as rural entrepreneurs.
Hatfield's Herbal
Author: Gabrielle HatfieldPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141044756
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Hatfield's Herbal is the story of how people all over Britain have used its wild plants throughout history, for reasons magical, mystical and medicinal. Gabrielle Hatfield has drawn on a lifetime's knowledge to describe the properties of over 150 native plants, and the customs that surround them: from predicting the weather with seaweed to using deadly nightshade to make ladies' pupils dilate appealingly, and from ensuring a husband's faithfulness with butterbur to warding off witches by planting a rowan tree. Filled with stories, folklore and remedies both strange and practical, this is a memorable and eye-opening guide to the richness of Britain's heritage.
Trist Families of Devon
Author: Peter TristPublisher: Peter Trist
ISBN: 0648499111
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This series of e-Books will chiefly be of interest to family historians with Devon ancestry. This first volume gives an account of the research methods used in building up the history of a mostly obscure family previously known mainly from parish registers and muster rolls.
The Local Historian
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.
Writings on British History
Author: Stations of the Sun
Author: Ronald HuttonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191578428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.
History Today
Author: Peter QuennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
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