News from the English Countryside: 1750-1850.
Morsley, Clifford. News from the English Countryside: 1750-1850. London: Harrap, [1979]. 320 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near find dust jacket in Brodart. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford Elmer Books" to fornt pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $20. * Departing from traditional retrospective histories, this book reconstructs century-long changes in rural British life entirely through contemporary local journalism and period newspapers. Morsley curates and contextualizes actual dispatches, advertisements, and editorial letters from the Georgian and early Victorian provincial press. The entries chronicle the immediate, lived realities of the Enclosure Acts, agrarian labor unrest, smuggling operations, poaching trials, and the introduction of steam power, capturing the shifting social landscape of the English village in the words of those who witnessed it.
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