The English: A Social History, 1066–1945
(This ebook does not include illustrations.)This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own.Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, it traces the development of English society over 900 years.The chapters range over life in the castles, palaces and monasteries, in the homes of rich merchants and in the hovels of peasants, describing the work and play of the inhabitants, their clothes, food and possesions, their servants and animals, their pleasures and suffering, their beliefs and attitudes, their schools, fairs, shops and markets, hospitals and prisons, theatres and churches, farms and factories, taverns and brothels covering every aspect of medieval and modern life.
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CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT
The English
A Social History 1066â1945
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
Published in Paladin Books 1988
First published in Great Britain by Grafton Books 1987
Copyright © Christopher Hibbert 1987
Extracts from Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales translated by Neville Coghill (Penguin Classics, 1951, revised edition 1958, 1960, 1975, 1977), copyright 1951 by Neville Coghill, copyright © the Estate of Neville Coghill, 1958, 1960, 1975, 1977. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
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Source ISBN: 9780586084717
Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2013 ISBN: 9780007438303 Version: 2017-01-11
FOR KATE
with love
Contents
1 Castles, Lords and Chatelaines
7 Tournaments, Pageants and Miracles
PART TWO ⢠The Ages of Shakespeare and Milton
14 Villagers, Vagrants and Vagabonds
15 Priests, Parishioners and Recusants
16 Country Houses and Country People
20 Citizens, Masters and Journeymen
23 âWhole Counties Became Desperateâ
26 âRoasted Chickens â Pease â Lobsters â Strawberriesâ
PART THREE ⢠From Defoe to Cobbett
27 âA Tour throâ the Whole Islandâ
28 Countrymen, Clergymen and Farmers
32 Travellers, Postmen and Innkeepers
33 Hunters, Poachers and Smugglers
39 Operators and Tooth-drawers
40 âYouth are Expeditiously Instructedâ
41 Universities, Academies and the Grand Tour
43 Clothworkers and Machine-breakers
44 Rick-burners, Paupers and Chartists
PART FOUR ⢠From the Victorians to Modern Times
49 Dressing, Smoking and Social Rank
51 Towns, Factories and Public Health
52 Mines, Brickfields and Sweat-shops
53 âNo One Knows the Crueltyâ
I had originally intended to call this book Scenes of English Life. This title would have indicated the limits of its scope. It cannot pretend to be a work of original scholarship or even of synthesis. It is intended for the general reader. References to sources are given in the text but these are provided to give the reader the opportunity of turning to those works of scholars and experts on which I have reliedâas well as to the literature which I have quotedâand as a means of acknowledging the debt which writers such as myself owe to the professional historian. I can at least claim that the book is the result of a lifetimeâs reading and of thirty years of writing on historical subjects. Not all the reading for this book has been done by myself. And I am most grateful to the many friends who have read books for me and have taken extracts from them. I would like especially to thank Liz McLeod, Dawn Marriott, J. T. Cooper, Godfrey Whitelock, Guy Hibbert and Thérèse Pollen. I am also most grateful to Janet Law, Alison Riley, Tessa Street, Nonie Rae and Margaret Lewendon; to my wife for having compiled the comprehensive index; to the staffs of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the London Library and the Institute of Historical Research, to Richard Johnson, Deputy Editorial Director of Grafton Books, and Anne Charvet, Senior Editor; to my agent, Bruce Hunter; to Thomas C. Wallace of W. W. Norton & Co; and to Marianne Taylor and Katherine Everett who have helped me choose the illustrations.
