Abstract
Abstract This essay reviews the historiography of common right and enclosure. It describes the construction of a tripartite model of early modern English rural society beginning in the 1920s but argues that recent work suggests the model was premature because a substantial body of small landholders and landless users of common lands survived in England until parliamentary enclosure. Recent work suggests too that the impact of that enclosure on small landholders, women and labourers was more profound than historians have argued. Finally, earlier types of enclosure are described and assessed.
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