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History Workshop Journal 1984 18(1):53-76; doi:10.1093/hwj/18.1.53
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The Peasantry of Nineteenth-Century England: a Neglected Class?

Mick Reed

Agricultural England in the nineteenth century presented a unique and amazing spectacle to the enquiring foregner: it had no peasants.

He still kept the farm modestly, for he was anxious to be able to do without help except from Beatup. His young family were also an expense. For a few years more he must he must expect to have them rather heavily on his hands ... then Albert and the twins would be able to do a little work, and gradually both the capacity and number of his labourers would increase, till at last perhaps he would be able to discharge Beatup, and Backfield alone fight Backfield's battle1


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