This 10 page paper discusses the life of the English commoner during the first half of the nineteenth century. This was an incredibly hard life with work beginning about age five and all workers working at least twelve hours each day with only a lunch break. A lack of sanitary conditions and clean water at homes resulted in any number of diseases and early deaths.
Original testimony regarding the living conditions of the working class is provided.
Leisure often consisted of festivals that were raucous and drunken. Bibliography lists 6 sources. Religious issues, the status of women, and the hysteria of the common people are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources. A 4 page research paper which examines why the witch-hunts of Europe finally declined in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries after plaguing the continent for centuries.