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This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common rights and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Inclosures --- Commons --- Land tenure --- Peasantry --- England --- History --- 18th century --- To 1500 --- Rural conditions --- Commons - England - History - 18th century. --- Inclosures - England - History - 18th century. --- Land tenure - England - History - 18th century. --- Peasantry - England - History - 18th century. --- England - Rural conditions - 18th century. --- Arts and Humanities --- Peasants --- Rural conditions. --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Enclosures --- Common lands --- Communal land --- Communal lands --- Public lands --- Natural resources, Communal --- Village communities --- Law and legislation