humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Spoken like a true loony left-wing communist of the British persuasion...

Pogue Wee Willie Black, always looking for conspirators and loony conspiracy
theories about how and why the faces of the poor, downtrodden classes are
being ground by the upper classes -- their betters.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

"William Black" wrote in message
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> In Cromwell's New Model Army the literacy rate was about 70%.
>
> That army was overwhelmingly urban and from the lower classes.
>
> There is little doubt that this was seen as a problem at the time of the
> restoration and that the urban 'parish school' system was systematically
> destroyed to drive the urban lower class back into illiteracy.