We love videos on economic history so much. Hopefully, you also enjoy them!

My wife: get out of the bed! We have errands to do. Me: Not now! I need to find out how the English peasants lost their lands.

Interesting to see you covering socioeconomic history. It would be great if you would make a video about serfdom and how it died out in parts of Europe during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period, while getting entrenched and intensifying in other parts. The river Elbe in Germany being the approximate border. I think that this topic isn't talked about much, and when it is, it's full of misconceptions and simplifications.

"The peasants are revolting!" "Yes, they are, aren't they?"

This makes me want to play every medieval city builder game out there

Thank you for presenting Enclosure as more complex than just 'sure it was bad, but this is why we have such agriculture today' and emphasizing that agricultural development was happening before and after enclosure as well, and not solely because of it.

Thief's of private property pass their lives in chains, thief’s of public property pass their lives in riches and luxury

Ah thats why the countryside looks the way it does even now.

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who takes things that are yours and mine. The poor and wretched don’t escape If they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back.

There's a docudrama series about the Norman Invasion called "Battle for Middle Earth". They gave out some fascinating info at the end: When William conquered England in 1066 he took half the land for himself, gave a quarter to the church and the rest he divided among 190ish Noble Norman families. The descendants of William and just those families still own 20% of the land in the entire UK today...

The enclosing of private land that was in common use so that it could be in private use of the landlord also happened in Mexico. It would be one of the causes of the Mexican Revolution. Where ever there is a rural movement, their concerns are often similar: the landless want land to use, those in debt want to be free, and peace.

A video on the English civil war factions such as the diggers and levellers would be interesting.

As a keen explorer of woodlands, I do find all the fences and "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs to be utterly frustrating in England....

This kind of stuff is more important for universal history than battles and kings. Still there is little attention to this matter from the public at large. So I'm glad to see this kind of videos. Congratulations!

One of the best K&G videos. Please also make one on the Iqta system and how it impacted medieval Islamic societies' productivity. Battles sound exciting, but its seemingly "trivial" stuff like this that decides the fate of the said battles far before the battle lines get drawn.

Ah yes, the disappearance of the anarcho-syndicalist communes.

I'm an economic historian and this checks out. Great video.

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. That's the first stanza of a 17th century poem protesting enclosures.

Nice one. I'm up in the Western Isles of Scotland where we had a similar and much better known phenomenon in the Highland Clearances.

I studied 1760 - 1870 social history at school for GCSE and our syllabus covered Enclosure. This lead to people moving into the cities in the long term.

This was a very popular topic in China. I learned the misery of English peasants before learning the English alphabet.

Something on Israel's war on and control of Lebanon, the subsequent displacement by Hezbollah and SLA's rise and fall will be AWESOME. There aren't too many documentaries on those and none even come close to your method of elaboration and visualization. Keep up the unbiased and AWESOME work. This is GOLD!

I've never understood England... until now, and I've studied its history a lot. This video explained what a Commoner really is.

This is the Kings and Generals channel, and we will catch you on the next one. My favorite part:)

I had heard about this process. But this video has made me realize that this issue was a lot more complex than I originally thought. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

🇮🇳 In India currently Indian govt is in process of passing series of laws & acts which many farmers think , will cause same reactions (as to English peasants in 17-18 centuries). Indian farmers are protesting against it by peaceful demonstrations and Marched to capital New Delhi. Apparently stopped at border of Delhi by police violently in name of Corona virus restrictions. These peasants are still protesting on gates of Delhi but biased media corporates chose to be silent. Some independent youtubers and small regional news outlets are publishing their stories, you can search- Indian farmers protest Love to Kings and General channel from INDIA 🇮🇳

I'm really loving this trend from youtube historians to shy away from battles and so on which all get a bit samey anyway, and bring more light on historical politics, economics, etc. Fascinating.

The reason why we in the UK live in one of the most unequal societies

If the Industrial Revolution started in England it is partly due to the enclosure, the privatization of lands having forced the peasants to move to cities to find a job to survive and willing to accept any proposition

If anyone tells you that property is theft, this is what they mean. They’re also talking about more modern theft such as taxing the poor to protect middle class inheritance.

I'm just happy that "norwich" was pronounced correctly. So many times its been nor-witch...so many.

I'd like to see an episode on how the Mesopotamian jungles turned into Iraqi desserts

Interesting, I see similar problems coming again to rural communities 😬

This is great history. Thanks for making this K&G, very comfy shift in tone from normal content. Helping people see the holistic, interconnected nature of life: socio-economic, ecclesiastical, military, political. As an Englishman and a follower of William Morris & John Ruskin, however, it is deplorable stuff to learn about. Really godawful that we paved the way for such stupendously systematic greed.

"Landless and more impoverished, benefitting rich landowners." You talking about the 1700s or 2010s? Can't really tell the difference in modern Britain. We're about 200 years overdue a revolution. Great video thanks, very educational.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Public education in my country 🇺🇸 is horrible. Your videos and videos provided by other channels taught me much more than 13 years of school could ever teach me. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

They did the same in Ireland, demanded rent, and then when the potato crop failed, took all the crops that didn't fail, the animals, the fish, exported to england and seen it as a way to get rid of the poor all together so that they could have huge open gardens free from peasants all together.

Very interesting as always. 😀 While Battles are extremely interesting; economic and social history are equally important and often lacking in many historical videos so it’s great to see this area also covered brilliantly. Looking forward to future videos.

Great topic

I increasingly enjoy these videos that do not cover only or mostly battles. Keep it up. There is a lot more to history than bloodshed!

Fascinating! I've known about the Enclosure movement for several years, but I never read up on the details of it. Cool video!

I love this kind of content! Please keep it coming

I loved your impartiality on what is a very emotive issue, you presented the historical socioeconomic context excellently, shall be watching more, thank you.

This was fantastic. I hope this is the start of a trend and you produce more videos on economic history.

“Your noble diggers now, stand up now, stand up now”

Awesome video! I would love more of this type of content.

This is why I love your channel! Incredible work 💓🙌🏽💓

*Me to the peasants I just kicked off my land* "Oh no your upset oh dear, orchestra play something sad."

Interesting topic, and great that you also include this socioeconomical approach in your videos.

Never learned about this in history class...thanks!

the song 'the world turned upside down' covers something similar to this, how those who worked the common land had it taken from them by a small clutch of rich land owners

Very interesting video! Thanks :)

At least the reasoning that enclosure was necessary to improve land productivity seems to me invalid. In the Netherlands, ground remained in ownership of the farmers, but patches were exchanged to make mechanical working the land possible (ruilverkaveling). The later approach combines larger area of arable land with individual ownership, which I think leads to higher crop yields.

I just thought of something as I was watching this. Since most peasants were uneducated and couldn't read or write or understand complex legalese and they couldn't afford to send their children off for higher education, they didn't have a lot of intellectual people to represent and protect their interests - so I was thinking, I know they were poor as dirt, but why couldn't have some of these villages just picked a handful of the smartest and brightest kids and all pitch in and send them off for higher education so there would at least be a few people from their village who were educated and literate and could understand contracts, agreements, laws, etc to help watch out for them and their interests?

Super high quality content! Wish there were more like it.

Outstanding resource of info thank you

Never thought a video about patches of dirt could be so interesting

And another watershed effect the enclosure movement had was the specialization and modernization of private property laws which carried over to the US and other Common Law countries. In essence, the economics that drove enclosure helped transform the legal and technological development of surveying/possessing land in the legal system.

Now this shyt gets my blood pumping. How the actual influences and impacts affected long term society.

Great topic, thank you!

Kings and Generals tackles primitive accumulation- unexpected, but a step in the right direction, comrade.

As a Brit living now abroad, these graphics make me very nostalgic about the old British countryside. Beautiful green hills, valleys and lots of sheep...

I just started studying this, thanks for a great video as usual!

I 💘 your channel SO much! Each video is like a History orgasm to my brain and 💙! Thank you for ALL of your hard work this last 19 months in particular!

A good video, though I am surprised the economic concept of “The Tragedy of the Commons” wasn’t discussed more.

The fact that over half the land is still owned by the nobility of England just blew my mind. I didn't think it would still be like that.

This economic history is phenomenally interesting to me. Please continue these videos as much as you can. Many thanks.

very informative video, hope to see more like this. Thank you.

I thought this was going to be about how the *English* English lost their lands after Hastings. I still can't wrap my head around how an entire class of entrenched nobility were uprooted so fast. Do you have a video on that yet?

You forgot about big milestone in enclosure, the expulsion of the monks. Monasteries had 1/3 of all English land, and when they had been destroyed in times of Tudor house, all this land was siezed by rich noblemen.

Great video and awesome animation . Keep up the good work

The economic videos are absolutely fascinating!

Gotta love how history repeats itself.

Heck yeah, thanks to all y’all for doing this on the reg

Very nice. Enjoyed it very much.

Very informative, thank you.

An interesting piece of British history Learning quite a lot from this channel

That's the problem with agricultural civilizations, people are easily subjugated. Why are the British okay with 0.06% of the population hording half of the available lands.

Nice 👍. Make this a series.

this new series sounds very cool nice job

Another great video but when you gonna make ottoman military equipment and tactics series?

We still live with the impact of this. Anybody wondering why our houses are smaller and more expensive than anywhere else in Europe will find answers here.

GREAT TOPIC! MORE PLEASE!!!

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Hello! Thank you for this great presentation. Instead of getting stuck in a University hall I can educate myself on such valuable subjects by clicking a thumbnail on my smartphone. And even join a conversation in this comments section. Wonderful. Now let me add a personal experience about enclosure in the UK. Years ago I travelled for the first time ever with a large Camping Car over the channel to Britain. I had already a good experience as a Camping Car user on the continent and I quickly noticed that in the UK it is not going to be that easy to use my vehicle and travelling style. Of course what I describe now will just be my impressions of those days and I may not have had the chance to get a better picture. But anyhow I started to notice quite quickly that there were not many places to just stop and rest. There were signs in most places where a vehicle could stop mentioning a time limit and pointing to a business. No parking spaces as we know them in France, Germany and many other continental Europe regions were stopping is welcome and you will not feel under pressure to leave. So these stopping limiting signs were my first annoying surprise although I could suspect that maybe in the UK there may be too many people abusing parking spaces by dwelling on these for too long.. no idea.. We submitted to the local rules and never got a chance to just rest on such parking spaces. We never tried to do some kind of camping of course.. but when you travel and want to sleep a couple hours.. the parking lots graciously provided by most of the continental european nations are a highly appreciated cultural factor. We started to miss this generosity. Next discovery were the quite narrow roads. All this has to do with enclosure to my understanding. Because the "public" space seems really very reduced to the bare minimum in comparison to continental europe road sides. I got the feeling that fences were right beside the asphalt of the roads in quite a few places making it even impossible just to stop a vehicle. We still continued to explore further north starting from Dover, London up to Scotland. If I remember well it was always the same. The landscape became less populated but the fences were always right beside the roads with very few places without somebody signaling his authority. Once we reached the Hadrian's Wall I was able to find a plot were public acess was welcome with a parking lot. So we could stop and visit the ruins of a Roman tower. Still there were special signs forbidding too long presence with vehicles. We were alone there and left. Luckily we discovered a plot of "public or communal" land.. with a kind of forest. There was a Briton with a tiny tent established on it. With a bicycle. He confirmed to us that this place was ok to have a stop without hassle in our camper for the night. Also we spent part of the evening talking about these land issues. Including "Lease Hold Properties" which also appeared quite incredible to me as a typical continental minded person. We still visited the UK for a couple more days noticing substandard public toilets beside some public stopping places. It was ok.. no problem.. we were explorers.Of course we contributed money to the UK economy by purchasing all kinds of supplies. As Camping Car travellers. Not as Hotel dwellers of course. All this gave me reason to think about the origins of these particularities we felt in the UK. I thought.. "these guys missed a revolution maybe?" For sure I felt much more grateful for all the generosity we encounter as citizens on the continent.. I became aware how much effort was put by nations such as France just opposite side of the channel to create every year more and more really beautiful rest and recreation areas all over the country.. were there will be no No Stopping for more than 2 hours signs and which are NOT controlled by Fast Food Chains. I thought about the Britons how they feel when they cross the channel and see all these free to enjoy places.. roadsides with forests just to walk in.. or fields were nobody will care that you stop and have a pic nic. So all this brings us back to excessive enclosure. Which as a historical event led to the desire of millions of freedom loving people to rather get onto a sailing boat and leave this Britain behind to start another life in America or Australia.. or even just Europe up to today.We keep good memories of our Camping Car trip to Scotland but one time was enough. Did I get it right?

Quite ironic that now St George's Hill is a private estate full of mansions where only millionaires and celebrities lives.

Many thanks for making such a complicated subject easy to understand. Was introduced to the Enclosure Acts in school in the late 1960s so I was not unfamiliar with the subject.

Great video, would love to see the Battle of Brunanburh on this channel at some point!

Chapter 26 of Capital Vol. 1: The (So-Called) Secret of Primitive Accumulation

Love insights on economic history and for anyone interested on a recent book on the subject I can really recommend The Verge Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman which does have a chapter on the dynamics of the English enclosure system. Since the author of that book has an history podcast a collab between Wyman's tides of history and K&G would be a dream come true

I love these economic history videos!

Solid topic, thanks

Yes kings and generals we also lovo economic history

I mean the alternative to enclosure, with the hindsight of today, would be to have democratic ownership over this local land.

great videos!

Excellent video from excellent historic channel

Kings and Generals: More like 'Themes and Principles of Historical Ecconomics'. Nice! Suggestion of topic. The de-industrialisation of India under colonial rule. Rise of businesses through the centuries and their impact on nations. Companies, Merchants, Banks, institutions.

Ah one of my favorite channels, if I had friends I'd tell them about it.

So that's why the industrialization started in England and not somewhere else! Fascinating!

i'm so glad this subject has been covered by a great creator