tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post7182622101661924743..comments2024-01-03T03:26:41.319+00:00Comments on Lucienne Boyce's Blog: 'We will have a fire': arson during eighteenth-century enclosures Lucienne Boycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-8614198303414814012013-12-22T12:13:19.046+00:002013-12-22T12:13:19.046+00:00Thanks Janis, you are so right, thanks for making ...Thanks Janis, you are so right, thanks for making the connection. I loved your story.Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-42641731429273317252013-12-22T12:12:56.257+00:002013-12-22T12:12:56.257+00:00Thank you, Janet, I think it is a very lively peri...Thank you, Janet, I think it is a very lively period! Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-58713600077784970142013-12-22T12:12:28.116+00:002013-12-22T12:12:28.116+00:00Hallo Christina, thanks for your comment. Yes, it ...Hallo Christina, thanks for your comment. Yes, it was a violent time, what with invasion threats and mutiny in the navy and army as well, not to mention the hounding of radicals...a very interesting time for a novel I think! Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-66939250649112835212013-12-22T12:11:22.054+00:002013-12-22T12:11:22.054+00:00Hallo Anna, thank you for this. Yes, we would defi...Hallo Anna, thank you for this. Yes, we would definitely have been lumped with the senseless. It's exactly what the suffragettes were called as well. Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-35288433384584887522013-12-22T12:10:42.049+00:002013-12-22T12:10:42.049+00:00Hallo Beth, thanks for your encouraging reply. I&#...Hallo Beth, thanks for your encouraging reply. I've seen the same in Turkey - people using roadsides etc to graze animals. Such things can be a vital part of people's survival. Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-30471751534385477332013-12-22T12:09:35.249+00:002013-12-22T12:09:35.249+00:00Thanks Debbie! Working hard on the novel...I do fe...Thanks Debbie! Working hard on the novel...I do feel very strongly about these land enclosures. Think how different things might be if we hadn't been robbed of our commons! Now there's a what if novel hoving into view...Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-4007443616707229852013-12-22T12:08:18.366+00:002013-12-22T12:08:18.366+00:00Thanks. I fear little has been learned - which is ...Thanks. I fear little has been learned - which is one reason for making sure history isn't forgotten I think!Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-76458314617730156732013-12-22T12:07:42.634+00:002013-12-22T12:07:42.634+00:00Thanks Wendy, it's a fascinating period of his...Thanks Wendy, it's a fascinating period of history I think. Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-29545252571217789182013-12-22T12:06:58.406+00:002013-12-22T12:06:58.406+00:00Thank you Helen, and thanks too for organising the...Thank you Helen, and thanks too for organising the blog hop. A fascinating day! Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-38282331288505936852013-12-21T23:09:27.735+00:002013-12-21T23:09:27.735+00:00This has been such a fascination Blog Hop - such a...This has been such a fascination Blog Hop - such a variety of articles! Thanks for this one - most interesting! Helen Hollickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-38343014692287642842013-12-21T20:52:35.397+00:002013-12-21T20:52:35.397+00:00Very enjoyable, Lucienne - enclosure has a lot to ...Very enjoyable, Lucienne - enclosure has a lot to answer for, and was the direct cause of my men ending up breaking their backs as navvies a few decades down the line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-78875357854739185312013-12-21T20:46:12.203+00:002013-12-21T20:46:12.203+00:00Thanks for posting this. I knew little about this ...Thanks for posting this. I knew little about this period of time, and you have brought it very much to lifeStoneLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338820506795034334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-56779680741987420892013-12-21T20:09:24.889+00:002013-12-21T20:09:24.889+00:00It was definitely scandalous and makes you wonder ...It was definitely scandalous and makes you wonder how the landowners could be so short-sighted! They should have known the consequences and it must have made them feel very unsafe for quite a long time with all those threats being made. Fascinating post!Christina Courtenayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17394275746146697340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-63174670778688379262013-12-21T19:41:06.481+00:002013-12-21T19:41:06.481+00:00Very interesting, Lucienne. A rather forceful remi...Very interesting, Lucienne. A rather forceful reminder of just how deep the social divides were - and most of us would have been Straw babies, i.e. the "senseless Peuple".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-53174664908586169402013-12-21T17:07:24.232+00:002013-12-21T17:07:24.232+00:00Your account is definitely alive, unlike the versi...Your account is definitely alive, unlike the version I remember from school. I've seen elderly peasant women grazing their one cow on a bit of common in Romanian villages. That reinforces how desperately poor folk need some extra means to help them survive. <br /><br />I think your novel will paint a vivid picture of this sad period in our history.Beth Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291800895744785318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-32307098619531849972013-12-21T16:42:40.606+00:002013-12-21T16:42:40.606+00:00My goodness, how did they get away with it?! Havin...My goodness, how did they get away with it?! Having read your clear and calm explanation, I can see now that on a scale of national scandal, it's practically up there with the slave trade - and of course reminiscent of the Highland Clearances north of the border. And how do they make it sound so dull in school history lessons when, as you have told it, it is such a human, interesting story - no-one could read your rational explanation without being incensed on the behalf of the poor. Looking forward to reading your novel now!Debbie Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041441181913334550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-79692630873458241172013-12-21T16:39:09.121+00:002013-12-21T16:39:09.121+00:00What a great inspiration for a novel, Lucienne! Go...What a great inspiration for a novel, Lucienne! Good luck with it.Wendy Percivalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06902813313352050696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-51162638334461101892013-12-21T16:36:32.491+00:002013-12-21T16:36:32.491+00:00Very interesting and as anything been learnt over ...Very interesting and as anything been learnt over the centuries? Yes and no! Thank you for a superb post.Pauline Barclayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13391269090700842939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-83452827172058983932013-12-21T12:58:22.984+00:002013-12-21T12:58:22.984+00:00Great inspiration for a novel, Lucienne! Good luck...Great inspiration for a novel, Lucienne! Good luck with it.Wendy Percivalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06902813313352050696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-19178739164654164852013-12-21T11:06:25.793+00:002013-12-21T11:06:25.793+00:00Thanks Dave. History repeats itself...many of Brit...Thanks Dave. History repeats itself...many of Britain's agricultural workers also ended up in city slums. Such a tragedy. Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-807397322709644792013-12-21T11:04:04.391+00:002013-12-21T11:04:04.391+00:00Thanks, Petrea. When I was at school enclosure was...Thanks, Petrea. When I was at school enclosure was taught as a very dry, boring period of "social history" - when I think it was one of the greatest scandals of all time! Lucienne Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503065710057233256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-62937016783533977142013-12-21T09:05:32.437+00:002013-12-21T09:05:32.437+00:00Great post, Lucienne. I saw at first hand how &quo...Great post, Lucienne. I saw at first hand how "common land" is still appropriated by big companies and government this way in Colombia with campesino peasant farmers driven from their homes and into the slums of Bógota and elsewhere, or shot by death squads or the military when they protested. I heard some of those protests condemned as "senseless" too!David Ebsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13300994123884587847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663666800718527751.post-26591923503690410082013-12-21T01:23:49.237+00:002013-12-21T01:23:49.237+00:00Fascinating, Lucienne! I never knew any of this.Fascinating, Lucienne! I never knew any of this.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.com