Annals of the Labouring Poor

Annals of the Labouring Poor
Author: K. D. M. Snell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1987-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521335584

Levels of employment, wage rates, welfare relief, sexual divisions of labor, apprenticeship patterns and seasonal economic fluctuations are included in this reassessment of the standard of living of rural labor during this period of England's industrialization.

The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles

The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
Author: Paulina Kewes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 811
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199565759

The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.