17th Century Almanac for October – hiring fairs & hewers
Winter wheat, hiring fairs, hewers, hurdlers, bodgers and vagrants.
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Early Modern Britain
17th Century life, society, faith, knowledge, trade and Climate Change
17th Century Almanac for September – Ship Money, cod & corsairs
Newfoundland cod, first Atlantic triangular trade, pirates and slaves.
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17th Century Almanac for August – Climate Change & Conflict
Harvest, the Little Ice Age, war, biodynamics and farming today.
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17th Century Almanac for July – Free Quarter & Contribution
The ‘hungry month’, campaigning armies, taxation and St Swithin.
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17th Century Almanac for June – Midsummer Fires & Hay Making
Bonfires, rush bearing, the Battle of the Dunes, Dunkirk and D Day.
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17th Century Almanac for May – Maypoles, Ministers & Mutiny
Whitsuntide, church wakes, wickedness and Leveller slaves.
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