Inclosure act

You're not allowed to have that.

Then you had the Enclosure Acts as well.

1773, I think it was.

That there, I mean, we had like miles and miles of common land.

common land for the common people under common law and you could go totally free because it was common land you could grow your own crops you could have your own rear your own animals if that's what you wanted to do to be looking after chickens for eggs or even like you know pigs for meat and that type of thing then these just for no reason the one percent which is the parliament which is the landowners which is the wealthy right exactly the same as it is today Did it force through like the enclosure acts, right? So now we're taking all of this land and we're privatizing it.

We're putting it in the hand of these already huge landowners.

Now they own more, including what used to be common land.

This conflict would erupt into riots and protest in towns like Alnwick and Canterbury during the seventeenth century.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the enclosure movement had become a national policy, with Parliament passing a series of Enclosure Acts that formalized the process.

Farmers now owned contiguous pieces of land, allowing them to experiment more freely with new techniques.

But the price was high.

But no agricultural system works without people who own and manage the land.

So Parliament introduced a series of Enclosure Acts that consolidated scattered strips into single, fenced farms.

It was ruthless for the peasant families left without plots.

Yet it provided the stable supply chain needed to feed factory workers during Britain’s industrial surge.

Now, if we think about technology, iron plows, water mills, improved navigation, all were accelerating in the same centuries.

The war itself slowed progress locally but indirectly set the stage for the economic reforms that followed, such as the 1495-96 Enclosure Acts and the expansion of trade networks beyond continental borders.

Let’s touch on gender and social roles.

Women like Elizabeth Woodville became political actors.

We lost it for a variety of reasons.

We started the Enclosures Act, all the way through to the Industrial Revolution, where lots of people moved from the country to the city, to rationing, to all these sort of things, the rise of the supermarket.

We sort of lost touch with our food basis.

So we've always been very... open-minded in London and in Britain and would like a sponge, so a chicken tikka masala, as you well know, is an entirely British Indian dish.

They want to produce it also.

And so they begin to pass through the parliament with the help of the House of Commons, what they call enclosure acts.

Now, The lower sorts were the first to push for this, the gentry, because they wanted to be able to get control of their land.

And if peasants were on there when they bought it without title, they wanted to be able to remove them.

And the idea is that a landowner had the right to enclose, to build a fence around his land and to use his land for himself that others couldn't use it.

Now, these enclosure acts, they aren't one act.

It's not 10 acts.

It's a group of acts that really last over about 100 and 150 years.

Precisely.

It directly mirrors real-world historical patterns, such as the British Enclosure Acts from the 17th through the 19th centuries.

In England, the wealthy landowning class passed laws to enclose a commons open land that was previously available to everyone for grazing animals or subsistence farming.

They fenced it off to create highly efficient, privately owned sheep pastures and agricultural estates.

It may be well to add that up to about the year 1830, the Broads and wet marshes were simply waste.

But by the Enclosure Acts and awards, these watery commons were allotted and divided among the neighboring landowners.

In some cases, the rights of navigation and staithes were expressly reserved.

In others, no reservation was made.

I have to do this thing to get the thing to keep me alive.

Then we started, for example, the Enclosure Act, and we started distancing people from the means of production, and all of a sudden, we had to, like, get money.

We're now, like, slightly more abstract.

So now the purpose is, "Well, I have to do this thing to get this thing that enables me to live." And then we started saying, "Okay, well, let's create companies and give people a sense of identity for this company.