Saturday, 11 June 2011

Agricultural labourers - balancing the books in Perthshire

If you've ever wondered who much an agricultural labourer earned in the 1790s, visit my other blog at http://walkingineternity.blogspot.com/2011/06/balancing-books.html to see the income and expenditure of a labourer from Auchterarder with a wife and seven children in the 1790s. The costs of items and ages varied across the country of course, but find out how to check out your area of interest in the post!

Chris

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