Elizabethan Culture and Ideas
Nine programmes about the attitudes and beliefs of the Elizabethans
6: Work and Leisure
The working week In Elizabethan England was very long. W. G. Hoskins , Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, considers whether life was as hard as this suggests; and looks at some of the ways in which the Elizabethans spent their spare time
With readings from contemporary sources by JOHN GLEN and WILLIAM Fox
Produced by HOWARD Smith
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