The Hop Bin An Anthology of Hop Picking in Kent and East Sussex |
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| Author:
| Doel, Fran
Doel, Geoff |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7524-9731-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2014 |
| Publisher: | History Press Limited, The
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| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | USD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the Tudor period to the present day, each with a contextual introduction. The selection illustrates both the 'rose-tinted' image and the harsher reality of a distinctive aspect of rural life in the south east.
For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the Tudor period to the present day, each with a contextual introduction. The selection illustrates both the 'rose-tinted' image and the harsher reality of a distinctive aspect of rural life in the south east.