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SUMMARY:Starving times: Popular Responses to the English Economic Crises o
 f the 1690s - Brodie Waddell\, University of Warwick
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DESCRIPTION:In the unsettled decade that followed the Revolution of 1688-8
 9\, the English people faced an unprecedented conjunction of hunger\, war\
 , currency failure\, and trade slumps. This paper shows that the 'poorer s
 ort' responded to these crises with a mixture of conservative reaction and
  creative adaptation. Sometimes this entailed deferential individual pleas
  for relief\, but occasionally they expressed their displeasure through ma
 ssive petitioning campaigns or protests by huge crowds which sometimes tur
 ned violent. By analysing the tactics and rhetoric employed by these men a
 nd women\, the extraordinary circumstances of this period are revealed. 
LOCATION:Erasmus Room\, Queens College
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