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  • The politics of hunger
    Carl J. Griffin
    The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named ’Hungry 40s’ came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples o...
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  • The rural war
    Carl J. Griffin / J. Carl Griffin / JCarl Griffin
    Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Seeking an end to their immiseration, the protestors destroyed machines, demanded higher wages and more generous poor relief, and even frequently resorted to incendiarism to enforce their modest demands. Occurri...
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