Before the Arrest

Enclosed in Poverty

Wages of Despair

Captain Swing

Formation of Unions

The Man Who Framed
the Martyrs

Between 1770 and 1830, enclosures changed the English rural landscape forever.

Landowners annexed vast acreages, producing even greater wealth from the now familiar pattern of small hedged fields.

Peasants no longer had plots to grow vegetables nor open commons for grazing their single cow or sheep and pigs.

Diet was basic - tea, bread and potatoes. As a result, the people were badly nourished and small.


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