History of Enclosures & resistance to it in Britain
Aims: To map the progressive enclosure of common resources over several centuries in Britain that has deprived people of access to common lands and more importantly rights.
Consists of citizen/community resistances to enclosure, dispossession and landlessness of many commoners over time through historical accounts from writers, poets, historians and activists.
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Open field system
Enclosure/private property system
The Sheep Devours
The Diggers
The Blacks
Drainage of the Fens
Scottish Clearances
Allotments and small holdings
Parliamentary Enclosure
End of enclosures
References:
Asselain, J.C. (1984). Histoire Economique de la France, du 18th Siècle à nos Jours. 1. De l”Ancien Régime à la Première Guerre Mondiale, Editions du Seuil.
Fairlie, S. (2009). A Short History of Enclosure in Britain. The Land Magazine, 16. Retrieved from https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/
Stirling, P. (1963). The Domestic Cycle and the Distribution of Power in Turkish Villages in Julian Pitt-Rivers (Ed.) Mediterranean Countrymen, The Hague, Mouton: 1963
Spiess, H. U. (1994). Report on Draught Animals under Drought Fonditions in Central, Eastern and Southern zones of Region 1 (Tigray), United Nations Development Programme Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia. Retrieved from: http://www.africa.upenn. edu/eue_web/Oxen94.htm
