For centuries much of the Island’s population has been rural – living in the various villages or scattered across the island in often isolated farms and cottages. For many people it was a subsistence life, without enough land to support a family, so they were often labouring on local farms, going to the fishing or maybe working in the mines as well. Discover more about how people earned a living, put food on the table and a roof over their head (and what was under that roof).
Discover how people celebrated, commemorated (and protected themselves) through the year and throughout their lives at both home and at work (whether on land or sea). When life could be so precarious and one bad harvest (either of crops or at the fishing) could be disastrous, people would do whatever it took to keep their good luck. So find out about the different ways people could try to ensure good luck, prevent bad luck, but also importantly have fun (a lot of folklore is about having fun... particularly for young people!). Tutor: Y Cresswell.
