Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in Elizabethan England (c1568–1603).
The practice of landlords charging unfairly high, spiralling rents, often designed to force tenant farmers off the land.
Rack-renting appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for British Depth Studies, especially Elizabethan England (c1568–1603) and The Poor.
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