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OverviewDorothy Hartley (1893 - 1985) is an author revered by enthusiasts for old English food and cookery and English country life. Her many books on these subjects, often illustrated with her own drawings, are collectors' items. Her greatest book, Food in England, has remained in print since its first appearance in 1954. During 1933 - 1936, she was commissioned by the Daily Sketch newspaper to write articles describing the English countryside, old English crafts and customs, country foods and country ways (with the odd excursion to Wales, Scotland and Ireand). She did her research in the British Museum (she had by then written several books of social history) and on the ground, travelling around the country on her sturdy bicycle, staying with her subjects or under hedges. These articles were to form her knowledge-bank which she used in several books that came out during the 1930s and beyond (particularly Here's England, 1935), but they have never been seen as they were first written. We offer a selection, with a foreword by Lucy Worsley (who is presenting the BBC TV documentary on Hartley to be transmitted this autumn) and introduced by the writer Adrian Bailey (who befriended Dorothy Hartley in her later life). The 60 articles are illustrated with some of Hartley's own snapshots which she kept as notes for future reference. The subjects range widely on matters as various as thatching, clog-making, eels, the country chemist, marram grass, sand shoes, crabs, sheep shearing, spring-cleaning, country kitchens, ploughing, weather lore, and elevenses. It will be classic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dorothy Hartley , Lucy Worsley , Adrian BaileyPublisher: Prospect Books Imprint: Prospect Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9781903018972ISBN 10: 1903018978 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 10 October 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by LUCY WORSLEY Introduction by ADRIAN BAILEY Thinking Mutton. Pedigree and Mousetrap. More about Cheese. Reet Good Clogs. The Jolly Tent Peggers. Smoo Cave. A Village Wedding. Miles and Miles of Shingle from which Tons of Pebbles are Picked. Don Back-stays and Off We Go. This is the Way We Bake Our Bread. The Village Wakes Up. Ever Been to a Sheep-Shearing. This Week we'll Thatch. Marram grass: a Craft as Old as England. A Lesson in Haymaking. Many Are the Uses of Watercress. Mushroom-time. There's more than One Way of Making Butter. A Day in the Life of a Scarecrow. Come Where The Bilberry Grows. Country Ways with Blackberries. It's the Nice Folk you Meet on a Country Bus. Now the Festive Season's Here, Let Us Consider Our Drinks. Putting the Turnips to Bed. Ever Tasted Laver? Some Ways They Have With Oatmeal. It's Oats that make the Hardy Folk. Learn your Bread and be a Man. With the Round Britain Spring Cleaners. By a Woodman's Fire. Toffee Apples. Women Down on the Farm. Seaweed for Dinner. Across the Apples and Round the Fruit. Oour Toys in England Now. Here's a Pretty Kettle of Fish. Just a Gloucestershire Cot. When The Cherries Come to Town. Put me on a Haystack. The Gentleman Gypsy. When the Cider Sings. Quick Work in a Welsh Kitchen. All about Tea in England Then. Our Village Wedding Cakes Include Spice of Reminiscence and Circumstantial. Superstition. Our Weather is Changing say the Wise Old Shepherds. The Goodness that only Bad Weather Supplies. Village Magicians. A Lesson In Ploughing. Elevenses I Have Known. Wrigglers' 3,000-mile Swim From Ancestral Breeding Places. Peace and the Joyous Anthem of the Birds. The Perfect Winkle Eater. With the Once-Upon-A Times - Charcoal Burner's Little Wooden Hut and a Motor Car. Inishbofin. Before You're Up in England Now. Spell of the Sand. Catching a Crab. The Hundred Things on My Shopping List. Hold-up by Ploughboys: Rustic Racket That Still Makes Good Fun. Town Mouse or Country Which has the Best of It?ReviewsAuthor InformationDOROTHY HARTLEY (1893 - 1985) was the daughter of a teacher and clergyman in Yorkshire. She was educated there and in Nottinghamshire and later at art college in London. She wrote much on the social history of England and on English crafts and country lore and on English food. Her most famous book is Food in England (1954). She was also a teacher herself and wrote much journalism, principally on country matters. Latterly, she lived in north Wales. She never married. Her books have continued to have a strong following among English readers. LUCY WORSLEY is chief curator at Hostoric Royal Palaces. She is an historian (the biographer of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle) and has latterly been the very successful presenter of several British television documentaries on historical matters and social history. She is presenting the TV documentary on Dorothy Hartley in 2012. ADRIAN BAILEY is an author, food writer, photographer and journalist. His books on food include one on bread and one on ingredients that continue to have a strong following thirty years after their first publication. He has also written several books on the techniques of photography. He was art editor and later food editor on various magazines in the 1960s and 1970s including Queen and Harper's & Queen. 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