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The English Peasant - Studies: Historical, Local, and Biographic (Paperback)
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The English Peasant - Studies: Historical, Local, and Biographic (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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Richard Heath, about whom very little is known, travelled around
England, and wrote a series of essays on agricultural workers,
towards the end of the nineteenth century, when rural life and
agriculture were undergoing great changes. The English Peasant was
published in book form in 1893. It begins with an outline history
of peasant life, which presents a very depressing picture.
Agricultural workers' housing may have been picturesque but was
primitive in the extreme, and enclosure of common land had worsened
their lot, especially in the south and west of England. Heath gives
graphic pictures of the conditions in which peasant families lived
and worked, dwelling especially on the high figures for infant
mortality. He was understandably shocked that a Christian country
could let its workers live like this, but hoped that the foundation
of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union in 1872 would result
in improvements in the workers' condition.
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