George Ewart Evans's pioneer work in oral history has been widely
acclaimed; the importance of this source of historical knowledge
has long been recognized both in this country and the United
States. In The Days That We Have Seen (Faber, 1975) he shows the
way in which oral history works and illustrates his point by
printing some exceptionally valuable recorded talks by old men and
women in East Anglian villages, whose tools and customs - and
indeed whose ways of speech, which often survived from the times of
Shakespeare and even Chaucer - repeated what had been familiar to
many generations before them. The use of common land hardly changed
for centuries. Who today understands the importance of hay in the
farm economy, when we are concerned with a different sort of fuel?
The author also investigates the activities of those who went to
sea: the herring industry, farm workers who became sailors after
the harvest, and migratory labour from Scotland. As fascinating to
the general reader as it is valuable to the historian, the book is
imaginatively illustrated throughout with photographs and black and
white line drawings.
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