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Auteur(s) : Cordle, Celia
Titre(s) : Out of the hay and into the hops [Texte imprimé] : hop cultivation in Wealden Kent and hop marketing in Southwark, 1744-2000 / Celia Cordle
Publication : Hertfordshireatfield (GB) : University of Hertfordshire press, 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-183 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Studies in regional and local history ; volume 9
Lien à la collection : Studies in regional and local history
Comprend : Introduction: '... into the hops' ; Land and location ; Fringe farms: the early days
of hop cultivation ; Continuity and change: Combourne and Harper's Farms 1897-9 ;
The twentieth century: futures ; Hop factors and hop merchants: buying and selling
hops in the Borough ; The last hurrah? Tithe commutation and the repeal of hop duty
; Conclusion: gathering up and moving on.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index
Texte remanié de : Thesis : Local history : University of Leicester : 2007
"Out of the Hay and into the Hops explores the history and development of hop cultivation
in the Weald of Kent together with the marketing of this important crop in the Borough
at Southwark (where a significant proportion of Wealden hops were sold). A picture
emerges of the relationship between the two activities, as well as of the impact this
rural industry had upon the lives of the people engaged in it. Dr Cordle draws extensively
on personal accounts of hop work to evoke a way of life now lost for good. Oral history,
together with evidence from farm books and other sources, records how the steady routine
of hop ploughing and dung spreading, weeding and spraying contrasted with the bustle
and excitement of hop picking (bringing in, as it did, many itinerant workers from
outside the community to help with the harvest) and the anxious period of drying the
crop. For hops, prey to the vagaries of weather and disease, needed much care and
attention to bring them to fruition. In early times their cultivation provided work
for more people than any other crop. The diverse processes of hop cultivation are
examined within the wider context of events such as the advent of rail and the effects
of war, as are changes to the working practices and technologies used, and their reception
and implementation in the Weald. Meanwhile, in the Borough, an enclave of hop factors
and merchants, whose interests sometimes conflicted with those of the hop growers,
arose and then suffered decline. A full account of this trade is presented, including
day-to-day working practices, links with the Weald, and the changes in hop marketing
following Britain's entry into the European Economic Community. This book provides
readers with a fascinating analysis of some three hundred years of hop history in
the Weald and the Borough. Hops still grow in the Weald; in the Borough, the Le May
facade and the gates of the Hop Exchange are reminders of former trade."--Book description
Sujet(s) : Houblon -- Cultures -- Weald (GB) -- Histoire
Houblon -- Industrie et commerce -- Londres (GB) -- Histoire
Conditions économiques -- Weald (GB) -- Histoire
Londres (GB) -- Quartier de Southwark -- Conditions économiques -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781907396038. - ISBN 1907396039. - ISBN 9781907396045 (pbk). - ISBN 1907396047
(pbk)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42750384p
Notice n° :
FRBNF42750384
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