ACCIDENTAL HISTORY OF TUDOR ENGLAND (PB)

This is a history of everyday life, and everyday death. Farming, building and travel were dangerous. Fruit trees killed more people than guns, and sheep killed about the same number as coalmines. Men stabbed themselves playing football and women drowned in hundreds fetching water. From bear attacks in north Oxford to a bowls-on-ice-incident on the Thames, this book draws on a remarkable trove of sources and stories to put the common people back into our picture of Tudor England.