This was one of the best books I read last year and some of the most compelling written and researched non-fiction I have cross paths with in a long time. This page along blew my mind for at least …| Three Acres And A Cow
A Lanthorne for Landlords was published as a broadsheet ballad to the tune of The Duke of Norfolk, and was clearly directed towards a popular audience in the countryside. Its narrative develops themes apparent in some of the earlier works in this section: most notably Robert Crowley’s poem, which ends with the voice of God […]| Three Acres And A Cow
A very old ballad borrowed from the private library of some aristocrat by a friend of Roy Palmer’s, who spent years trying to obtain a copy. Probably connected to the Midland Revolt. You gentlemen that rack your rentes, and throwe downe Land for corneThe tyme will com that som will sigh, that ever they were […]| Three Acres And A Cow
I’ve recently been learning about the failed attempts by the Scottish ruling class to start a new colony in the last 1600s and how this bankrupted them. It was financial ruin caused by this that led to their agreeing (being bribed?) to the formal union of Scotland with England and Wales in 1707 in exchange […]| Three Acres And A Cow
