“I’d like to ask you about this enclosing scheme.” (March 6, 1814)

My post on enclosure in Georgian England is featured on the English Historical Fiction Authors blog. Thanks to Annie Whitehead and the EHFA! Please click here for the full article: 

English Historical Fiction Authors: “Good fences make good neighbours”: Enclosure in Georgian England. By Elizabeth Grant

 

And in case you're wondering, there is evidence of artichokes in England going back as far as the mid-seventeenth century (Charles Quest-Ritson, The English Garden: A Social History, London 2001, p. 36), so there is nothing anachronistic about this view from the kitchen garden at Chatsworth – apart from the fact that it's a photograph.