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The Diary of Mary Hardy 1773-1809, with the diary of Henry Raven: 3. Farm, maltings and brewery 1793-1797

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This third volume covers the middle years at Letheringsett, in barley country. The diarist's husband takes on a brewery apprentice, her nephew Henry Raven (1777-1825), born like her in the Norfolk village of Whissonsett. The full text of Henry's four-year farming and brewing diary is here intercut with Mary Hardy's abridged record, giving us incomparable insight into working life. The Hardys' business continues to prosper in spite of the war with France: conflict and high taxation form a recurrent backdrop to the diaries. Mary Hardy's world takes on a new dimension--the meeting house. She starts to go to Methodist meetings in nearby villages. It is a quest she spearheads, her husband rarely joining in. Only later does she persuade her daughter and son to take up Methodism too. The set of four volumes is offered at a special price (ISBN 978-0-9573360-4-9), where you can read more about this lavishly illustrated and annotated edition of the diary. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1180g
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Apr 2013
  • Publisher: Burnham Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780957336025

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The editor Margaret Bird was an honorary research fellow in the History department of Royal Holloway University of London 2006-21. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016. For both her first degree at St Anne's College Oxford and her master's at Royal Holloway she specialised in aspects of English 18th-century history. She has been continuously engaged since 1988 in researching and editing this work published in five volumes. She has now brought out not only the full text of this diary but of Mary Hardy's nephew Henry Raven who as the brewery apprentice lived in the same household. Their unusual diaries together total more than 570000 words. Four volumes of commentary and analysis followed in April 2020 entitled Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809. In June 2015 Margaret Bird won the award of the British Association for Local History (BALH) for Research and Publication as the overall winner in the long-articles category for her article 'Supplying the beer' first published in The Glaven Historian in 2014. She drew on her Mary Hardy research as the principal source for this study of life on the road in late-18th-century Norfolk.

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