ASK THE FELLOWS WHO CUT THE HAY

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a classic book about English rural life. In the 1950s, pioneering oral historian George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, smugglers' tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer, and created this fascinating picture of a now vanished world. It presents a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good.