ABSTRACT
War then had its consequences everywhere: they did not cease with the end of hostilities. From the price of every taxed good to the sight of crippled exsoldiers seeking alms, the after-effects of conflict pressed home throughout the country. Crime rates rose as disbanded soldiers and sailors were cast adrift with few resources.1 In wartime the impact was also universal: fewer farm hands for the harvest; an interruption of coastal trade bringing less coal to London; the anxiety for those who served that it too often overlooked in a society mistakenly defined as habituated to pain, loss and suffering.
