The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765

About this book

In the tradition of Pepys Evelyn and Woodforde thomas Turner 1729-1793 spent eleven years of his life recording the detailed minutiae of everyday village life in preindustrial England. A hardworking shopkeeper he occupied a key position in East Hoathly Sussex where he also served as undertaker schoolmaster and overseer to the poor. His massive journal--a third of which appears here--attests to his rightful place as an indispensable English diarist.