The Long Affray
Published in 1985 and described by Ronald Blythe in the "Guardian" as a 'great telling of a shocking story' Harry Hopkins examines the history of a bitter conflict that raged in England for over two…
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Published in 1985 and described by Ronald Blythe in the "Guardian" as a 'great telling of a shocking story' Harry Hopkins examines the history of a bitter conflict that raged in England for over two centuries.Coming across an obscure poacher's grave Hopkins finds two contradictory headstones: one denouncing the poacher as a murderer and the other saluting him as a martyr. So begins Hopkins's quest for the truth and it leads him to an age-old battle between peasant and landowner where for the price of a rabbit or a pheasant men were murdered, transported as convicts and executed. This ancient struggle over game was not just about food for the poor poachers and their families, it was about social rank and the power of the landed gentry, the burgeoning class politics of the time and the harsh realities of rural life.Writers like Rudyard Kipling and politicians such as David
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