What Happened After the Black Death? | History for Sleep

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England in 1350 had more grain than mouths, more houses than households, and more land than there were hands left to work it.

A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.

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Tonight: the quiet years after the Black Death, when empty fields waited for workers and abandoned farms waited for tenants. Rising wages, falling rents, better bread, and laws attempting to preserve an order that no longer matched the country. The gradual decline of serfdom, the return of grass and woodland, and the abandoned villages whose streets still lie beneath the English countryside.

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