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    A Pauper's History of England: 1000 Years of Peasants, Beggars and Guttersnipes

    By Peter Stubley

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    What would English history look like from the gutter? 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? Surely the poor are just as much a part of our heritage?

    A Pauper's History of England covers 1,000 years of poverty from Domesday right up to the twentieth century, via the Black Death and the English Civil War. It uses contemporary sources creatively to give the reader an idea of just what life was like for the peasants, paupers, beggars and the 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 Peasant's 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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781473871618
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      A Pauper’s History of England – A View from the GutterAnyone that has studied English History knows that over the years most of the texts on the subject are from the upper echelons of society. There are so many books about the Kings and Queens the masters and mistresses of England, those who ruled and quite often abused those below them. We have histories of our churches and the ministry they gave to the deserving poor.Peter Stubley has like some historians before him have decided to take a look up from the gutter and his book A Pauper’s History of England, 1000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes. This is a wonderful view from the bottom of the pile looking up at their Lordships, this is a book that looks at all those the history books forgot or simply avoided.This is really is history from a different perspective and oh what an interesting perspective it is as the history starts from the Doomsday Book in 1886, taking in a monks vow of poverty, something easily achieved at that time. A look at the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 and the brutal suppression of the revolt and this was the first time a Poll Tax was introduced in to the country. A thousand years later when a Government tried to introduce a Poll Tax once again, the peasants revolted again, and helped to get rid of Margaret Thatcher.In the chapter that covers The Counterfeit Crank we are introduced to an idle beggar who was notorious of his time, Nicholas Genings. We also learn quite a lot of the slang language of the time which was rather interesting and at times a little eye opening. It was also interesting to learn that Queen Elizabeth I also licensed genuine beggars across the whole of England. Not the system she set up actually worked.With a trip to Bedlam, in which we see the patients of Britain’s first public asylum, or to give it the correct name Bethlehem Hospital and we see the description of it. It is hard to believe on the descriptions on the beauty of the building the chaos that reigned within its walls. The descriptions of the cacophony of noise that would hit you on entering the hospital, you soon see how the Hospital gained the moniker of Bedlam, a word now in common usage today.Peter Stubley has researched and written a wonderful history book that really draws you in and think there by the grace of God I live today rather than then. Well written and illustrated throughout this book is of great interest to all readers and especially those that want to know more about the poor of England and how they were dealt with in history.