HANDEL'S ARIAS
Sung by STILES-ALLEN
7.0 Miss V. SACKVILLE-WEST: New Novels'
7.15 Musical Interlude
7.25 Mr. A. V. JUDGES: Life and Labour in England from Elizabeth to Anne-II, Tudor Village Life and Husbandry '
By Tudor times, the peasant had freed himself from the old obligations which had bound him to the soil in enforced labour for the manorial lord; but by gaining personal freedom, he had lost his security. New methods of husbandrv were another feature of the transition; rack-rents and evictions disturbed the tenure of the copyholder, and a new class of wealthy men, unhampered by social tradition, played an increasingly vigorous part in agrarian changes. One other point to be broached tonight by Mr. Judges is the place of Tudor women in the home and in the fields.