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348 The Great Rebuilding

The History of England

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The Great Reconstruction of the English Agrarian Economy

The great rebuilding of vernacular buildings, hoskins therefore put down to the middling sort in the country. Hoskins very openly noted that he was talking here mainly about rural society. The work had not been done to talk about towns. So far, then, great idea wat an hoskins man. But there's nothing a good historian like than a good grand narrative to snipe at tall poppy sondr sindrome. And the great building is no different.

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