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Going to the Berries

Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers

Roger Leitch author Caroline Milligan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:NMSE - Publishing Ltd

Published:7th Dec '20

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Going to the Berries cover

Pickers came from near and far year after year – and from a variety of backgrounds – for the berry-picking season. For local people, adults and children, it was an opportunity to supplement the family income; Glasgow folk combined it with a holiday. For the Scottish Traveller community it was an annual opportunity to meet up with friends and family, and forge new relationships.

Roger Leitch encouraged many of those local berry pickers to share their recollections for this book – which is published at a time of political change with challenges for the soft fruit cultivation business. He also interviewed workers in other seasonal employments such as potato picking and ghillieing.

' … Fascinating material is presented throughout … The focus on the wide range of oral testimonies presented, mostly from a particular region of Scotland that has thus far not received in-depth attention in the wider historiography, means that the book offers important insights for the historical agenda.' Scottish Archives

 

ISBN: 9781910682395

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm

Weight: 283g

240 pages