📗 Libro en inglés A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE IN 100 OBJECTS

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 Nature Writing The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts A really lovely fascinating book I dived straight into this clever joyous celebration of nature history and of course the countryside Charles Spencer author of The White Ship For most of human history we were rural folk Our daily lives were bound up with working the land living within the rhythm of the seasons We poured our energies into growing food tending to animals and watching the weather Family friends and neighbours were often one and the same Life revolved around the village and its key spaces and places the church the green the school and the marketplace And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records The daily routine of the peasant the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life war and royal drama Lives went unrecorded stories untold There is though one way in which we can learn about our rural past The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history From farming tools to children s toys domestic objects and strange curios the everyday items of the past reveal fasci