8: Merchants and Society
The merchants of the early seventeenth century formed a single clan, but they were often divided among themselves-London merchants against provincial. large-scale capitalists against small, and wholesalers against middlemen.
BARRY SUPPLE
Professor of Economic and Social History in the University of Sussex, shows how these divisions led to clashes of interest and prevented the merchants speaking with a single voice on the issues leading to civil war.
With readings from contemporary sources by GARY WATSON and JOHN GLEN
Produced by Adrian Johnson