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Whoops! I didn't think to check. Thanks Albion Wilde.

• New research reveals what was on the menu for medieval peasants

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What this shows is what the peasants ate - when they ate. And it doesn't reveal the portions.

In the 17th Century Hobbes could still observe that for most people life was nasty, brutish and short. In the early 19th Century, English peasants were willing to trade rural poverty for urban poverty in Dickensian cities.

There's a reason that millions of them took a chance on America to get the hell out of there.