Author: Margaret Bird

Through the eyes of the diarist Mary Hardy we experience the active religious life of those in the pew. She helped to run an early Church of Englan...

The Hardys as farmers and brewers, their workforce and their wider circle were constantly on the move: itinerancy was a way of life. Roads, waterwa...

An extremely hardworking workforce enabled the Hardys to prosper. We watch the same man plough the soil, sow the seed, harvest it, work at malting ...

Resilient and hardworking, with few social pretensions, the Hardy family of farmers and brewers is described in detail. We meet a series of indepe...

This four-volume study analyses and interprets what an unusual eighteenth-century female diarist has to tell us about rapid change and the response...