[The Story of England 01] • The Story of England by Wood, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction The Story of England

1. Searching for England

Corieltauvi: the Hallaton treasure The early searchers: a chorography of England The first finds The excavation of 1863 Further clues Topography of the village

2. The Roots of a Community

Life in the villa Farming Kibworth in the late-Roman world ‘The awful revolution’ Barbarians The fall of Rome On the ground in Britain Epilogue

3. Angles and Saxons

From Angeln to England Change and continuity The catastrophic sixth century The village: 500–700 In the runes: words and thoughts Religion

4. The Beginnings of Kibworth

Hard times: Kibworth in winter 762 The beginnings of Kibworth Tribes and kingdoms The coming of Christ St Wilfrid ‘The terror of the Arabs’ The village in the eighth century

5. Under the Danelaw

The terror of war Slagr ‘the Sly’ and Blath ‘the Blade’ Numbers: elites or mass migration? ‘A farmer needs a wife’

6. The Kingdom of England

The conquest of the Danelaw Shires and hundreds The beginnings of civic life The open fields Haywards, woodwards and reeves The rise in the standard of living The workers The village in 1066 The last days of Anglo-Saxon England The Norman Conquest

7. The Norman Yoke

The Domesday Survey: Kibworth in 1086 Class Medieval apartheid: life under the Normans The open fields The farming year in the open fields ‘Christ and his saints slept’ Boom time Englishness rising

8. The Community of the Realm

Magna Carta The people’s voice: ‘England is free’ The crime of John Wodard Alien invasion: ‘We will fight on beaches’ The Hundred Rolls of 1279

9. The Scholars of Merton

Enter Walter of Merton The people of Kibworth in 1280 Women in the village The peasant landmarket Dark clouds, strange omens

10. The Great Famine and the Black Death

The Black Death: 1348–61

11. Rebels and Heretics

A new vicar Kibworth in 1380 Traditions and controversies The Peasants’ Revolt ‘I smelle a Lollere in the wynd’ Inquisition at Canterbury Back in Kibworth William Swinderby The penance of Roger and Alice Dexter Survival: 1389–1414 Oldcastle’s revolt From Lollards to Nonconformists?

12. From Villeins to Yeomen

After the plague Mobility, freedom and wealth In the city is freedom The rise of the Browns London

13. The End of the Old Order

Social change: 1400–1600 Education: 1300–1500 The secrets of the school box Pychard the Butcher The horizon of the fifteenth century

14. The Reformation in Kibworth

The reign of Edward VI: ‘commocion tyme’ Living through the Reformation ‘Slander and scandal’ ‘So that there remain no memory’ Thomas Ray ‘A woman is a worthy wight’ The passing of the old order

15. A Century of Revolution

Rural revolt A literate society The coming of civil war Religion Civil war Restoration Nonconformists The Kibworth Academy Grievous crimes and carnal concupiscence

16. Agricultural and Industrial Revolution

The enclosure of the common fields The creation of a landless proletariat Canals and industry The Industrial Revolution comes to Kibworth The village in the 1860s

17. The Victorians

The coming of the railways Woodford’s ‘Personal Reminiscences’ Education, education Leisure pursuits ‘Brave, voteless women’

Illustrations Epilogue: The Twentieth Century

The Second World War Post-war new world The village today ‘For ever England’