Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 281.

Where's Unluses?

Oddly, this is a rather significant episode.

In set now means I have 301 active episodes on iTunes after having carefully moved my

guest episodes to the separate guests of the History of England podcast.

This means that if you go to iTunes and if you use iTunes you will only see the most

recent 300 episodes and to see all of them you will need to subscribe.

Sorry about that, I do not make the rules.

Also, I need to thank two people, Susan and Jeremiah's, you both know why.

Now then, last time we heard about population change in England with reference to the

Dollyge sewage works and something of the structure of English society and I left you all

with a question hanging uncomfortably in the air.

How did population growth and price inflation affect different groups in society?

Was that uncomfortable for you?

I might have given the game away anyway when I mentioned that land was the big divider.

No land, good, crucifixion, line on the left, one cross each.

With land, freedom and wealth.

Let me tell you why land ownership became so spectacularly important in the 16th century,

even more so than normal.

In the 15th century you might remember that holding land had not been really that great

because there were not many people knocking about on account of the largest pandemic in

world history a hundred years ago, so it was difficult to find enough people to work

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