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A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old farm tools, smugglers' tales, and rural customs and beliefs going back to the time of Chaucer.
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Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0571086489
- ISBN 13 9780571086481
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages262
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Book Description [0-571-08648-9] 1972. (Hardcover) Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. 262pp. Maps, wood engraving illustrations, sources, index. The spine is lightly faded. "Original, arresting and always human. The book is a mine of information, but this is offered so unpretnetiously that it reads as easily as a quiet book of memoirs" - the Economist. Engravings by Thomas Bewick. Locale: ; Blaxhall; Suffolk. (History--England, History--England). Seller Inventory # 148525
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