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

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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Release date

Ebook: 30 September 2015