description: Thomas Turner (1729-93) was a key figure in the village of East Hoathly, Sussex, where he was a shopkeeper, undertaker, schoolmaster, tax-gatherer, churchwarden, overseer of the poor, and much besides. In his diary he recorded eleven colourful years of daily life in a Georgian village. Here are boisterous parties (after one of these the rector's wife helped pull Turner from his bed in the early hours and made him dance in his wife's petticoat), cricket matches, cockfighting, horse-racing, unexpected windfalls of confiscated brandy... Here too are vivid and memorable portraits of those whose lives and deaths would otherwise only be fodder for the statisticians.
language: English
title: The diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765
titlecomplete: The diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765
genres: History
ratings_count: 25
publisher: CTR Publishing