George Ewart Evans Born: 1-Apr-1909 Birthplace: Abercynon, Cardiff, Wales Died: 11-Jan-1988 Location of death: Brooke, Norfolk, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: Wales Executive summary: Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay Military service: RAF (1941-46) Pioneering folklorist and oral historian. Father: William Evans (b. 1866, d. 1942) Mother: Janet Hitchings Wife: Florence Ellen Knappett (m. 1938, three daughters, one son) Daughter: Mary Daughter: Susan Daughter: Jane (b. 1939) Son: Matthew Evans (b. 7-Aug-1941)
High School: Mountain Ash School University: University College Cardiff (1931)
Communist Party Labour Party (UK)
Author of books:
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay (1956, social studies) The Horse in the Furrow (1960, social studies) The Pattern under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia (1966, social studies) The Farm and the Village (1969, social studies) Where Beards Wag All: The Relevance of the Oral Tradition (1970, social studies) The Leaping Hare (1972, nonfiction) The Days That We Have Seen (1975, social studies) From Mouths of Men (1976, social studies) Horse Power and Magic (1979, social studies) The Strength of the Hills: An Autobiography (1983, memoir) Spoken History (1987, memoir)
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