Practice question · True or false
Pre-industrial rural populations were far more mobile than the image of the settled peasant suggests.
Hints
- What do parish registers show?
- Servants, apprentices and seasonal labour all moved.
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True
Why
True. Parish reconstitution shows high turnover, life-cycle service, apprenticeship, seasonal labour and marriage migration moved a large share of every generation. The immobile peasant is largely a nineteenth-century construct, and correcting it changed how historians read everything from dialect to disease.
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