Author: EVANS, GEORGE EWART
Title: Where Beards Wag All: The Relevance Of The Oral Tradition
Description: Newton Abbot, Country Book Club. 1973, First Edition. Hardcover, 220mm Tall, 8vo. Ill.: Gentleman, David. Book, In this book George Evans sets out to explain the special importance of the oral tradition on which he has relied. The memories of the old men and women of the village, born perhaps between 1880 and 1895, supplement and humanise the documentary evidence of the historian and the material evidence of the archaeologist. 26 chapters over 4 sections: Craftsmen, Agriculture, The Village, Migrant Workers. 29 illustrations. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Gentleman, Davidhistory, Social Sciences, Wheelwright, Whitening-Roll Maker, Marshmen, Norwich Drovers, Dialect, Jack Page, Helmingham, Suffolk, Tollemache, Stone-Picking, Pettingill, Somerleyton, Social Sciences


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