Economcs: May 2008 Archives
In Our Time is a BBC radio program hosted by Melvyn Bragg that deals with a lot of interesting intellectual topics. Recently, he had an excellent program on enclosures in 18th century Britain. The Contributors were:
Rosemary Sweet, Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester
Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow
Mark Overton, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.
And there's a short bibliography provided. Check it out. Have a listen.
(Here's an article on Enclosures from the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.)
---Fred Rowland
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Rosemary Sweet, Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester
Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow
Mark Overton, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.
And there's a short bibliography provided. Check it out. Have a listen.
(Here's an article on Enclosures from the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.)
---Fred Rowland
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