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The Road to Civil War: Class Conflict and Constitutional Crisis in Stuart England, 1603-1650

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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How the Enclosure Movement Continued in England

Economic changes caused so much stress and loss for many of the people in england, especially poorer rural people. The enclosure movement continued. Write lords, local governments continued to go in seize common lands that had previously been opened for any one and close them. Morean or people were losing their sort of basic basis of survival in these common pastures and fields and woods. Many people hence became homeless, vagrants, destitute, turned to theft banditry. And there was increasing poverty and anger. Right? So, in a sense, this rift that i talked about between high church and low church, and between high church anglicans and puritans, it was real and it was

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