Patrick Joyce considers what peasant society was like – and how this way of life has disappeared
Europe’s peasants have all but disappeared since the end of the Second World War. Patrick Joyce has studied the past 200 years of the peasant experience, and in conversation with David Musgrove, he explores what we might learn about this vanished world. He considers what European peasant society was like, and how far peasants’ world view differed from the way most of us see the world today.
Patrick Joyce is the author of Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World (Penguin, 2024)