'In Our Time' -- The Enclosures permanent link

[Dan Olner]

Hey up
 
I've nabbed a permanent copy of the In Our Time radio prog and stuck it
at:
 
http://www.coveredinbees.org/files/inclosuresInOurTime.mp3
 
If you want to download a copy rather than listen online, use Firefox
and get the UnPlug plug-in (useful for grabbing other media files too) -
 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2254
 
Cheers,
 
Dan

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From: diggers350 at yahoogroups.com [mailto:diggers350 at yahoogroups.com] On
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Sent: 01 May 2008 23:28
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Subject: [diggers350] Radio 4 'In Our Time' -- The Enclosures



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Pity they can't spell 'Inclosure'!

You can download the (20 megabyte!) podcast until next Wednesday from 
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20080501-1130.mp3
<http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20080501-1130.mp3> 

P.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml> 

THE ENCLOSURES

Find out more about this subject by using our research page

In the early 19th century, the Northamptonshire poet John Clare took a
good 
look at the countryside and didn't like what he saw. He wrote:

"Fence meeting fence in owners little bounds
Of field and meadow, large as garden-grounds,
In little parcels little minds to please,
With men and flocks imprisoned, ill at ease."

He was referring to the effects of the Enclosures - literally the
fencing in 
of land to stop others from using it. This apparently simple act has
been 
hugely controversial. For some Enclosure underpinned the economic and 
agricultural development of Modern Britain. For others it was an act of 
theft - the turning of common land into private property that
impoverished 
the many for the sake of the few.

But what really happened during the era of 18th and 19th century
enclosures? 
Who gained, who lost and what role did Enclosures play in the
agricultural 
and industrial transformation of this country?

Contributors

Rosemary Sweet, Director of the Centre for Urban History at the
University of 
Leicester

Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature at the
University of 
Glasgow

Mark Overton, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University
of 
Exeter

- -- 

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God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burroughs, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

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