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Topic: Favourite books on 19th century rural England?? (Read 728 times)
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Gadget
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Hi
One book that I've recently acquired is Tom Quinn's Tales of Old Country Farmers,pub - David & Charles ISBN: 13:978-0-7153-2418-9
It was first published in 1995 but has just come out in Paperback at £12.99
Quinn interviewed a number of old farmers mostly in their 90s about the old methods and farming/rural life - covers a broad spread - Norfolk, Warwick, Devon, Kent, Cleveland, Denbighshire, Humberside, Sussex and North Yorks.
It is beautifully illustrated.
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kitschwitch
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Thanks Gadget...that sounds perfect. As I live in Spain, I can't browse the libraries. I'd like to have a book list for when I go back in the summer!
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Gadget
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I got mine from a certain online bookstore that has a name similar to a South American River  - it's worth browsing their website for others. I'll take a butchers later at my other sources and see if I can find you some more.
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Gadget
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Hi again
I've been thinking and doing a bit of looking for other books for you
The main problem is that the 19th century references are mainly concerned with the transformation of England/UK from a mainly rural, agrarian society to an urban industrial one. Many of the Soc/Econ History refs of the period will have a chapter on 'Agriculture' but not too much on rurality as such. Your best bet is likely to be to select a locality and concentrate on its local history. My own books are mainly concerned with parts of rural Wales/Shropshire and Scotland.
Here are a few general ones that might be worth looking at:
E J T Collins The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Volume 7, 1850–1914 (Cambridge) - thorough but probably a bit intense
Richard Heath The English Peasant (1893 ?) - might be able to get a copy second hand
and the classic:
William Cobbett Rural Rides (1830 ?)
An expert contact has suggested the following:
Mark Freeman Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870-1914
http://www.boydell.co.uk/61932579.htm
Nicola Verdon Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Gender/sayer.html
Mark Freeman (ed) The English Rural Poor, 1850–1914 - 5 volumes
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/ruralpoor.htm
Geoffrey Best Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75 - for overview of movement to the cities from the countryside.
Also worth reading are the many classics - Gaskill (North and South , for e.g.) and Thomas Hardy amongst others.
Gadget
PS - you might try googling to find more 
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kitschwitch
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Stupendously helpful!! Thank you for all that. It's such a fascinating subject, I can't wait to start.
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Tjapaltjarri
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One of my favourites - and one that got me started in pestering my grandparents for their stories was 'Where Beards Wag All' by George Ewert-Evans. These are wonderfully detailed collections of oral history collected at the begining of the 20th century about village jobs - wheelwright, ploughman etc. and really helped me get a feeling for the skills and knowledgebase of the 'Ag Lab' !
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Biker
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Hiya
Speaking of the venerable Ag Lab, as you do! I remembered a rather interesting thread which has some very interesting comments as well as some useful links on agricultural/rural culture and society which you might find helpful in addition to the other great suggestions you've already been given http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,29570.0.html
Happy reading
Biker
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kitschwitch
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Wow thanks .....have just whooooshed down the first page, it's brilliant! Will be taking my time over that one. What a sharp memory you have, Biker!
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kitschwitch
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Thank you so much for recommending this site......you have made my day, it's like Christmas! However did I miss this one!
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Has anyone seen or read The Place of the Rural Blacksmith in Parish Life, 1500 to 1900? I'm not sure of the author, but I saw a reference to it, and wondered if it was any good.
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