EY
TN
PU
E
IDG
BR
STATUTE OF LABOUR
maximum wage to pay lobourers & prohibitons
regarding tenure of work
THE BLACK DEATH
1381
reached as far as Southwark , but couldn't
cross London Bridge - the entrance to the
City of London as he was repelled by
Londoners . He eventually crossed at
Wallingford, on the Thames
Conflict between the land-owning aristocracy and the agricultural producers, the serfs...
bad weather led to the Great Famine of 1315–1317; the Black Death in 1348–1350 led to a population crash. These factors led to a decline in agricultural production. In response, feudal lords sought to expand agricultural production by
expanding their domains through warfare; they therefore demanded more tribute from their serfs to pay for military expenses. In England, many serfs rebelled.
1549
1603
The Putney Debates
were a series of discussions, which
took place in 1647 – concerning
the makeup of a new constitution
for Britain
100 YEARS WAR (FRANCE)
1. - Owners of money, means of production, means of subsistence.
2.- Free workers, the sellers of their own labor-power
1642
1649
CREATION OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON
After the collapse of the manorial system of production, in England a class of tenant-farmers was created with more freedom to market their goods. Lords could buy out or evict tenant farmers, but
then had to hire free-labor to work their estates – giving them an incentive to invest in two very different kinds of commodity owners:
Free workers, neither form part of the means of production nor do they own the means of production that
transformed land and even money into what Karl Marx called CAPITAL
1688
1539
Demise of the open field system and the loss of land held in common - the rise of enclosure and sheep farming - precursor to industrialisation and capitalism
PRINTING PRESS CENSORSHIP
Introduction of a Bill of rights which included respective powers of Parliament and ended
moves towards absolute monarchy in the British kingdoms.
After 1689 came an alternative understanding of economics, which saw Britain as a
commercial rather than an agrarian society.
1830
ENCLOSURES ACTS
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
4000
ACTS
OF
PARLIAMENT
CHANGED
Including
enclosure for the area of Britain from mechanical common to private land
1838
1859
1873
IRISH LAND ACTS
SOCIALISM & COMMUNISM
1914
Government response to recession: tracts of land compulsory purchased divided into
small units & offered at a low rent to the unemployed
SETTLED LAND ACTS
1928
1932
1945
1939
1962
1993
protests against social and economic inequality around the world
OCCUPY
Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests
100% fully transparent survey and registration of land ownership
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
2010
2009
THE ARAB SPRING
Anti-austerity movement in Spain
THE INDIGNADOS
A Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT OF COCHABAMBA
against Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Free
Trade Agreements (FTAs)
LA
VIA CAMPESINA
Inrternational Peasant's movement
KINDER SCOUT TRESSPASS
highlighted that walkers in England and Wales were denied
access to areas of open country
FEMALE SUFFRAGE
BEGINNING OF WELSH "HOIME RULE"
MALE SUFFRAGE
BEGINNING OF SCOTTISH "HOIME RULE" (SCOTTISH OFFICE)
BEGINNING OF IRISH "HOIME RULE"
dispute between landowners and communities distressed by high
rents, their lack of rights to land, or facing eviction to make way for
large-scale farming operations.
CROFTERS' WAR
the first complete picture of the distribution of
landed property in the British Isles
RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND
"The sun never set and the blood
never driees on the British Empire"
THE CHARTISTS
Deported for acts of unionisation
TOL PUDDLE MARTYRS
THE SWING RIOTS
Agricultural workers rose up and destroyed
threshing machines in East Kent
Creation of new constituencies, vote to all
householders & greater representation
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM ACT
THE LUDDITES
1918
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRASH
EUROPEAN SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS
1611 1616
1885
1880 1886
WORLD WAR II
1799
1832
WORLD WAR I
1789
THOMAS PAINE
Author or "The Age of reason" - advocated deism, promoted reason and free
thought, aarguing against institutionalized religion
FRENCH
REVOLUTION
ABOLITION OF FRENCH FEUDALISM
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Conquest leading to a bill of rights "vindicating" the nation's
"ancient rights and liberties"
Foundation of the Bank of England - credit was initially banned
The overthrow of King James II of England, by a union of English
Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of
Orange-Nassau
THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
ST GEORGE'S HILL
common land on the hill was occupied by The Diggers, who began to farm there.
The Diggers are often regarded as one of the world's first small-scale
experiments in socialism and/or communism
LEVELLERS, DIGGERS & RANTERS
Leading to the "Agreement of the people"
Angered by the enclosure of common land a peasant army of 20,000
took control of Norwich then England's second city and forced the
army to truce
Succesive monarchs confirm untill the end of the Century
Corporation ofn London excluded from laws intriduced in 1888 to
elected county governments in England
1773
AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
I
1773 Enclusuyres Act
a law that enabled landowners to enclose land and
remove the right of commoner's access
HI
ET
AB
LIZ
TOWE
R
ON
LOND
SOUTHWARK
BLACKFRIARS
KETT'S REBELLION
1066: William the Conquer
NE
LL
EE
HA
QU
TH
DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
LAMBE
Rebels began to cross from
Southwark onto London Bridge The
defences on London Bridge were
opened from the inside and the rebels
advanced into the city....
THE GLORIOUS
REVOLUTION
UX
1381 Peasqants' Revolt
Land grab - Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents and
friaries in England, Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of
their assets,
(against the indiscrimate Poll tax) Leader Wat Tyler killed by the
Lord Mayor of London in a meeting with King servants
PEASANTS' REVOLT
ITH
SM
ER
MM
HA
WESTMINSTER
ENGLSH CIVIL WAR
confirming both charters as part of
England'sstatute law
THE GREAT CHARTER
a reissue of the Charter of The Forest and
Magna Carta as one document
THE GREAT CHARTER
CHARTER OF THE FOREST
MAGNA CARTA
CHARTER OF HTE FOREST
DRASTICALLY REDUCED POPULATION
Increasing labour power
VA
D
James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of
England, Scotland, and Ireland after the death of
Elizabeth I uniting the thrones of Scotland and
England
re-issue of
combined re-issue
first iteration of
last version of
first iteration of
HOOD
Legends first appear fighting agaisnt the harsh
forest law and "disaforested"
ROBIN
Bound the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of
nobles, church officials, and individuals.
CHARTER OF LIBERIES
William granted the citizens of London a charter the City was one of a few
examples of the English retaining some authority. The City was not
covered by the Domesday Book.
HEREWARD THE WAKE DIES
leader of resistance to the Norman conquest of England
ERFOR
KING JAMES
TH
LAND ENCLOSURE:
GREAT FAMINE
T
OR
Ct
KE
SW
ON
C
WI
ND
MP
T
The commune able to elect their own mayor
M
1346
WA
Power structure where people held their land in return for promising loyalty, known as doing homage, and
providing services such as working or fighting for their lord
HA
The whole body of the citizenry was considered to
constitute a single community
A
NH
13151317
CHISWICK
citizens gained the right to appoint a
mayor with the king's consent
King Henry I granted a sheriff to the people of London. Thus Middlesex
and London were regared as one administration
The "Great Survey" of land
ownership of much of England and
parts of Wales
1297
HUNG
O
LO
1225
ER
1215
T
WA
1200
CHELSEA
1141
ERT
The Ankerwycke Yew is
said to have been witness to
the signing of Magna
Carta 1215
1130
EA
Runnymede
1100
1217
RS
1086
1190
1189
ALB
1075
1072
1353
1351
TTE
889
DOOMEDAY BOOK
1066
BA
NORMAN CONQUESTS
Rather than continuing the war, Edgar the Ætheling, Edwin of Merciaand
Morcar of Northumbria surrendered at Berkhamsted - on the condition that
London could have a form of self governace
AGREED RIGHTS
ALFRED THE GREAT
Dominat ruler of England intriduced
"THE DOOM BOOK" - the book of laws and judgements
RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS
KEY BRIDGE
410AD
FREEMEN OWNED LAND / COMMONING
Commoning was a popouar and well established practice
ROMANS LEAVE BRITAIN
issued as
complimentary charters
of liberties
ANTI-AUSTERITY
MOVEMENTS
2020
2007
HORSE FAIR
COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Paying large landowners through the implementation of a system of agricultural subsidies