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Time's alteration. Calendar reform in early modern England.(Review)
Time's alteration. Calendar reform in early modern England. By Robert Poole. Pp. xix + 243 incl. 3 figs and 2 tables. London: UCL Press, 1998. [pounds]40. 1 85728 622 7
The celebrated calendar riots of 1752, through which ignorant countrymen pleaded to be given back their eleven days, never happened. Instead, according to Robert Poole, England's belated adoption of the sixteenth-century Gregorian calendar reforms passed smoothly, with little political controversy but considerable local confusion. The mythic calendar riots originated in Hogarth's satire on the Oxfordshire election, and passed uncritically into legend. This book traces the history of calendar reform …
