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Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles(Routledge Revivals)

Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles(Routledge Revivals)


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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.



Table of Contents:

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



About the Author :

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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032978697
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Sub Title: Living Social History of the British Isles
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1032978694
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Routledge Revivals
  • Weight: 570 gr


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