Episode 14 - Hunting and Shooting. This week we look at the decline of hunting after the Noman Conquest, and its re-invention by the social elite in the wake of the agricultural revolution to re-assert aristocratic control of the countryside.

0:00: Intro
2:22: The Animals
1:08: Medieval Hunting
6:28: Modern Hunting
16:11: Shooting

Sources:
Linda Colley, ‘Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837’, 1992
Roy Porter, ‘English Society in the Eighteenth Century’, 1982
https://archive.org/details/albionsfa...
https://www.hampshire-history.com/wal....
https://www.nature.com/articles/462567c
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/sta...
https://archive.org/details/the-laws-...
EMOHA testimonies by George Ball, Francis Bird, Kenneth Barnett, Albert Crooks

Media used:
Partridge Video by jesús Cambronero Almenar from Pixabay
Pheasant Video by jLasWilson from Pixabay
Hare Video by marwan gaming3arbi from Pixabay
Rabbit by NickyPe from Pixabay
Red fox Video by Klaus Reiser from Pixabay
Grouse Video by Kanenori from Pixabay
Wolf Video by Nicky ❤️🌿🐞🌿❤️ from Pixabay
Wild boar Video by Michal Renčo from Pixabay