Rethinking enclosure

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The Gloucestershire Branch of the national Historical Association welcomes you to hear Professor Carl Griffith of Sussex University give a talk on Rethinking enclosure: encroachment, commons, and community in the English West.

Between 1500 and 1850, the open fields and pastures, and commons and wastes that made England's landscape were enclosed, common rights eliminated, and the poor cottager and peasant once reliant on the common now turned into a wage labourers. But there is a different story to be a told, about what happened both on the edge of manorial wastes and on the edge of society. About how the poor were often active as enclosers themselves through acts of encroachment, typically on the edges of remnant commons and other 'wastes' (verges, greens, forests).


This talk reveals a neglected and forgotten aspect of how that once held in common became private property. It will show, through acts of encroachment and squatting, not only were new plebeian communities forged, but the poor found ways to eke out an existence.

The talk is in person and on Zoom. Please register in advance for Zoom using TicketSource. Here's the link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/historical-association-gloucestershire-branch/t-vvlpjda

All welcome. £4.00 cash on the door. Zoom guests £4.34

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Rethinking enclosure: encroachment, commons, and community in the English West

Type:Talk or Lecture

Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, GLOUCESTER, Gloucestershire, GL1 3DW

Opening Times

Season (10 Nov 2025)
DayTimes
Monday19:30 - 21:00

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