Source A A hunting picnic in the 1590s
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Eduqas Component 1B The Elizabethan age, 1558–1603 and 2H Changes in entertainment and leisure in Britain c.500 to the present day
For most ordinary people in Elizabethan England the only days they did not work were Sundays and festivals like Shrove Tuesday or May Day, while the rich had a lot more money and time to spend on their leisure activities. Sometimes public events could themselves become a form of entertainment as crowds turned out to watch the execution of heretics and traitors, as well as the branding and whipping of vagrants or humiliation of offenders in the stocks or pillory.
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