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The author of this book, a native of South Wales, found himself in the early 1950s living with his family in a remote village in East Anglia, just as mechanization was taking control in every aspect of rural life. He set out to gather a unique testimony to his neighbours' vanishing skills, crafts, speech-forms and folklore. This book is the result.
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The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History, by George Ewart Evans - author of the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay - draws from his writings about the memories of men and women from a past era.
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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 & Faber
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0571167004
- ISBN 13 9780571167005
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
- EditorGentleman David
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