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Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge
Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00
Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660
- 👤 Speaker: Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: History Faculty Room 12
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Abstract
Seventeenth-century drainage of the English fens was a flagship project of state-led ‘improvement’, which promised to alchemise unproductive wetland commons into profitable, enclosed terra firma. This paper examines how drainage was experienced and navigated by local people in the northern fens to illuminate how it produced differential improvement and contested environments.
Series This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.
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