Urban enclosure riots: Risings of the commons in English towns, 1480-1525
(2014)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. D. (2015). Urban enclosure riots: Risings of the commons in English towns, 1480-1525. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 226(1), 41-77. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu038
The process of enclosure, in which hedges, ditches and gates were erected to extinguish or inhibit common rights to land, is usually associated with agrarian society. The enclosure riot, in which hedges were uprooted, ditches levelled and gates destr... Read More about Urban enclosure riots: Risings of the commons in English towns, 1480-1525.