Unquiet country - Robert Lee

We rarely hear the past voices of the rural poor - the
labourers dependent on casual employment, the workhouse inmates,
the dispossessed. This book lets them tell their own story. It
is, frequently, a story of bitterness and resentment, and one
that bursts occasionally into outright rebellion. To many who
occupied the early-Victorian countryside, injustice seemed part
of the landscape.Robert Lee draws on a remarkable set of historical sources from
Norfolk which show how the experience of poverty could lead
people into social transgression and political resistance. Using
dramatisations of contemporary accounts he presents a series of
disturbing true stories, and goes on to assess what each one can
tell us about the reality of nineteenth-century rural society.
Insurrection, riot, execution, witchcraft, seduction - Unquiet
Country visits the dark side of the Age of Improvement.