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THREE ACRES AND A COW - exciting and important folk song show for Ashford 

25/1/2014

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Write it on your calendar - Saturday 15th March!   At 7.45 - 10.30 in the evening

"Three Acres and a Cow" is the real story of our relationship with the land - a story of which allotments make up a significant and undervalued chapter. Allotments are our last link with our medieval ancestors, whose rights to graze their geese on common land and farm a few strip fields were gradually stolen from them over the centuries.
EXTRACT FROM THE 'THREE ACRES AND A COW' WEBSITE

"Telling the history of land and food in Britain is always a multi-stranded narrative. On one side we have the history of enclosure, privatisation and the dispossession of land based communities; on the other we have the vibrant histories of struggle and resistance that emerged when people rose up and confronted the loss of their lands, cultures and ways of life.

These multiple histories go largely undocumented in the literature of the times, often expressed simply as a hanging here and an uprising there, yet in the music and stories of the people they take on a different life.

‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects The Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with the 80′s road protests and Occupy via the enclosures and Highland Clearances, bringing a compelling narrative to the radical people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems.

Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations."

Click here to go to their website, with lots of reviews
Click here to go to St Mary's ticket website for more details
1 Comment
L.V. Pathe
26/10/2014 04:34:54 pm

I don't know if this is of any interest to you but in 1947 my uncle purchased a farm in Warks. Hanging over the wood-fire kitchen range in the kitchen was a framed print of jockey riding a cow and the next fence was the next general election. The caption of the cartoon asks "will it carry him over the next fence?" The vendor of the farm told us that in the 1887 general election a major issue was that families in rural areas should have three acres and a cow. In 1971 this picture was given to me by my uncles widow. I brought it to Toronto where I have lived since 1957, had it restored and framed. It hangs in our kitchen at our cottage at Buckhorn Ontario. I have now owned it for the past 43 years and it's in very good shape. I would be interested in knowing of future events and whether or not my picture is of any interest to you

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