Close to the Earth

Living Social History of the British Isles
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97885-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, Close to the Earth is a record of a vanishing age in Britain, of working communities and working individuals who made their living from the land, the rivers and the sea. It is based on conversations and personal memories collected for over twenty years and is illustrated with many contemporary photographs of the times remembered. The people Judith Cook talked to—who among other things mined, fished, worked the land and brewed ale, and worked in stone and slate—lived through an era which spanned man’s first flight and the first landing on the moon. Their way of life, which in many parts of the country had remained unchanged over the centuries, is fast passing from sight and memory. What Judith Cook succeeded brilliantly in doing is to record the stories of some extraordinary ordinary people, how they worked and how they felt, before it was too late.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Out of the Earth  1. The oldest craft  2. The tinners  3. Dying for coal  4. Baddesley miners  5. Working the slate  Part 2: Coastal waters 6. Singing the fishing  7. The Great Newlyn Fishing Battle  8. The silver darlings  9. Mending the nets  10. Oysters and crabs  11. Colliers, cockles and coracles  12. The islanders  Part 3: On the land  13. A farmer’s wife  14. The little old boys  15. In service – the poacher’s wife  16. The Dartmoor man  17. Brewing in a London village

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Cook was a journalist and author. She had worked for the Guardian, the Birmingham Post, Labour Weekly and Anglia TV. She was a regular contributor to many other publications such as the Observer, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping.