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'Save ye markitt as need shall require & thende darth maye be avoided': How Hull’s merchants stabilised the city’s grain market in the subsistence crises of the 1580s and 1590s.
Felicity Wood, University of Hull PhD student
Tuesday 10 September, 12.30pm
Admission free
As our modern world acknowledges the magnitudes of global climate change, the instabilities present in the international food market become apparent. Food security, availability and equality are becoming persistent concerns. This present anxiety about food availability and changes in climate is not a uniquely modern experience; during the early modern period there were concerns about the major disturbances witnessed in patterns of weather and environment which drove apprehensions about food availability and the management of the haunting possibility of dearth. Hull played an important role in England’s experience of Elizabethan subsistence crises; not only importing grain for national and local distribution, but also in the ability of its merchants to manipulate and control a competitive grain market. This talk will present the surviving narrative of Hull’s experience of the 1580s and 1590s subsistence crises. It will explore how international and national routes of market flow were utilised and manipulated by Hull merchants, and also, how the local authorities become an ambivalent association promoting fair and equal trade whilst monopolising the movement of grain foods within the town’s market.