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: 1317031997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
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.
The Farmer's Wife
Author: W. I. BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Door middel van een enquete in Zuid-Engeland wordt getracht de omstandigheden en het functioneren van vrouwen in landbouwbedrijven te benaderen
Trist Families of Devon
Author: Peter TristPublisher: Peter Trist
ISBN: 0648499170
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
If your ancestors were Devon farmers and country dwellers this volume is of great relevance and interest because it examines the daily life of villagers using the statistical data accumulated by social historians. It answers some of the questions we would have asked our ancestors if we could travel back in time to their era. Questions are discussed regarding • marriage partners • life span • bereavement • re-marriage • size of families • mobility • men’s & women’s work • standards of living and many more everyday issues.
Eat My Words
Author: Janet TheophanoPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403962935
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. Theophano begins with seventeenth-century English estate housekeeping books that served as both cookbooks and reading primers so that women could educate themselves during long hours in the kitchen. She looks at A Date with a Dish, a classic African-American cookbook that reveals the roots of many traditional American dishes, and she brings to life a 1950s cookbook written specifically for Americans by a Chinese émigré and transcribed into English by her daughter. Finally, Theophano looks at the contemporary cookbooks of Lynne Rosetto Kaspar, Madeleine Kamman, and Alice Waters to illustrate the sophistication and political activism present in modern cookbook writing. Janet Theophano harvests the rich history of cookbook writing to show how much more can be learned from a recipe than how to make a casserole, roast a chicken, or bake a cake. We discover that women's writings about food reveal-- and revel in-- the details of their lives, families, and the cultures they help to shape.--Hardcover book jaclet.
Encounter
Author: Stephen SpenderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Great British Bakes
Author: Mary-Anne BoermansPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448155010
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
*Winner of the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award 2014* Food writer and baker extraordinaire Mary-Anne Boermans has delved into the UK’s fine baking history to rediscover the long-forgotten recipes of our past. These are recipes that fill a cook with confidence, honed and perfected over centuries and lovingly adapted for use in 21st-century kitchens. Here you will find such tempting delights as Welsh Honey Cake, Lace Meringues, Rich Orange Tart, Butter Buns, Pearl Biscuits and Chocolate Meringue Pie. They are triple-tested recipes that do not rely on processed, pre-packaged ingredients and they are all delicious. And Mary-Anne reveals the stories behind the bakes, with tales of escaped princes, hungry politicians and royal days out to sample the delicacies of Britain’s historic bakeries. This very special collection sits confidently among the best of British cookery writing, with recipes that have stood the test of time and that will both surprise and delight for years to come.
Private Eye
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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