The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Reaction and regulation
Escalating prices and the sudden shortage of labour in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death posed an urgent threat to the ordained social order, spurring both seigniorial attempts to tighten control over serfdom and a raft of ambitious new government legislation. By the 1360s, however, compromise and competition were more prominent than coercion, and irreversible institutional changes had been set in motion.

A Drinks Reception will follow this lecture at 6pm in the North School

All are welcome to attend
Date: 25 January 2019, 17:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2019)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Speaker: Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Laura Spence