'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution
(2008)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2008). 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution. Rural History, 19(2), 163-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793308002471
Agricultural incendiarism was a perennial factor in social relations in some areas of nineteenth-century rural England and is often understood by historians as an expression of 'covert' social protest. However, such categorisation risks oversimplifyi... Read More about 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution.