English Villagers

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A fascinating portrait of daily life in the countryside during the Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war years. Valerie Porter sets the scene through contemporary photographs
and first-hand accounts of individual .
villagers all over England. ^^^
Country life in England has changed dramatically since World War II. The car, the tractor and a rash of new buildings have so transformed many villages that our ancestors would scarcely recognise them. In recent decades, numerous old buildings have been carefully restored, village ponds cleared and customs such as Plough Monday and May Day enthusiastically revived. But the daily life of our great-grandparents has been lost in the obscurity of times past.
In this fascinating book, Valerie Porter reveals what life in English villages was really like during the Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war years. She exposes the past through contemporary photographs - for this was the era of the camera, as well as the pony cart and the village bus -... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A fascinating portrait of daily life in the countryside during the Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war years. Valerie Porter sets the scene through contemporary photographs
and first-hand accounts of individual .
villagers all over England. ^^^
Country life in England has changed dramatically since World War II. The car, the tractor and a rash of new buildings have so transformed many villages that our ancestors would scarcely recognise them. In recent decades, numerous old buildings have been carefully restored, village ponds cleared and customs such as Plough Monday and May Day enthusiastically revived. But the daily life of our great-grandparents has been lost in the obscurity of times past.
In this fascinating book, Valerie Porter reveals what life in English villages was really like during the Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war years. She exposes the past through contemporary photographs - for this was the era of the camera, as well as the pony cart and the village bus - and firsthand accounts of villagers all over England: blacksmiths and shop-keepers, publicans and squires. It is a portrait of rural society in a time of tremendous social change, of courage and tenacity in the face of hunger and shortage, and of new freedoms as the inhabitants of remote farms and hamlets came into contact with a wider world.
In re-creating the past, Valerie Porter enables us to see today's villages in a truer light. Their layout and buildings were moulded by the daily needs of the people whose lives she describes. By observing them today - the tithe barn, the old bakery or the forge - we can glimpse again at what life was like when Victoria was queen. Vissza