The Barn

Adored this little English microhistory. Author, Sally Coulthard, bought an English farm estate in Yorkshire in 2007. She fell in love with the land, the farmhouse, and the barn. The barn being several hundred years old proved to be especially fascinating to her and she loved looking up where some of the stones came from, what some symbols meant, what the additions were called, what purposes different areas had. She shares all that she discovered in The Barn and it's a charming look back at a quant little parcel of land and the amazing British history that took place on the land or inspired change on the land. Delightful and fascinating. As a history nerd I ate this up. I learned so many little tidbits about the origin of words (horsepower for instance) and the history of different farm implementations and England's transportation and road system. This may have been my first Sally Coulthard but it won't be my last!