Description
| Product ID: | 9781914613555 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | One Fine Day |
| Subtitle: | A Journey Through English Time |
| Authors: | Author: Ian Marchant |
| Page Count: | 364 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Biography: historical, political and military, European history, History, Biography: historical, political & military, British & Irish history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, England, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly ... Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom''s family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife''s nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary''s bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with antiestablishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on. Rich and immersive, One Fine Day draws a living portrait of Marchant family life in the 1720s and how their England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent, illnessridden) became the England of the 2020s. |
| Imprint Name: | September Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | September Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-15 |