#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10768/enclosure-commissioners-introduced?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon