Hackers' Pub

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Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux@historians.social

9/27/2025, 4:54:44 PM

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This week on the blog: More Peasants! This time the focus is on the work of peasant women, beginning with textile production.

Keeping a household in clothes was, it turns out, very much a full-time job.
https://acoup.blog/2025/09/26/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivd-spinning-plates/

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates

This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who hav…

acoup.blog · A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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