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A Pauper's History of England : 1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes, EPUB eBook

A Pauper's History of England : 1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes EPUB

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A unique tour through British history—from the perspective of the peasants and the poverty-stricken.
 
The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians and pioneers. But what about the people struggling to survive at the very lowest levels of society?
 
A Pauper’s History of England covers a thousand years of poverty, from Domesday right up to the twentieth century, via the Black Death and the English Civil War. It paints a portrait of what life was like for the peasants, paupers, beggars, and working poor as England developed from a feudal society into a wealthy superpower.
 
Experience the past from a different perspective:
 
  • Tour the England of the Domesday Book
  • Make a solemn Franciscan vow of poverty
  • Join the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
  • Converse with Elizabethan beggars and learn their secret language
  • Meet the inmates of Bedlam Hospital and Bridewell Prison
  • Enjoy a gin-soaked Georgian night of debauchery
  • Spend the night in a workhouse
  • Go slumming in Victorian London, and more!

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