>My grateful thanks Barbara and Julie for your recommendations and >comments. Some more bedtime reading! Bryan 11480 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:30:31 -0000 >From: "Barbara Sanders" <bsandbed@tiscali.co.uk> >Subject: [SFHG] More books >To: "SFHG Rootsweb Mailing List" <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <001d01c87bd2$b7e8e020$49f0424f@sandersf8404d4> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Two academic books which discuss rural life in the early 1800s are: > >* 'The Village Labourer 1760-1832' by JL & Barbara Hammond (1911); >dated style, not specifically Sussex but v informative. > >* 'Captain Swing' by Eric Hobsbaum & George Rud? (1969); >the rural problems following the Napoleonic Wars, poor harvests, >Corn Laws, mechanisation of farming (thus unemployment for labourers), >and the Enclosure Acts, leading up to the ag labs' uprising known as >the Swing Riots in early 1830s across S England. >Part 1 describes agricultural and village life leading up to the riots. > >The book 'That Near and Distant Place' (which I already mentioned) >has a chapter called 'Reaching Out: 1830-1838' which >is fictional but portrays the way of life and events of the time. > >Also recommend Thomas Hardy novels and short stories - Dorset's not >so far away! >I felt that the life of my Sussex shepherd ancestors was brought to >life by his story 'The Three Strangers'. > >Happy reading! > >Barbara Sanders >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:25:10 -0000 >From: "Julie Cheesman" <juliec@globalnet.co.uk> >Subject: Re: [SFHG] More books >To: "SFHG Rootsweb Mailing List" <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <014101c87beb$243911b0$0201a8c0@SFHG> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >The Village Labourer is on-line at: >http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/hammond/village.html > >I'm not sure it's that easy to read it all on-line and it would take a lot >of paper to print out all 11 chapters! I tried looking at it on-line years >ago and didn't get far. > >Julie > -- -Bryan Pannett