French Revolution or Peasants' Revolt? Petitioners and Rebels in England from the Blanketeers to the Chartists

Poole, Robert

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“…She argues that historians have ignored the significance of landscape in the ritual of popular politics and shows that the ‘symbolism of place’ was shaped by the use of rural spaces as places of protest but also by the connections of those places to work and everyday life. Poole revisits the ‘Blanketeers’ march of 1817 showing a strong connection and appeal to episodes from the English past including the ‘peasants' revolt’ and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and asserting that the protestors' pleas were as much to the throne as to Parliament. An alternative form of protest was recorded by Peers in her analysis of voluntary absenteeism at Quarry Bank Mill.…”

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The Economic History Review

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Section: (Iv) 1700–1850 Anne L Murphy University Of Hertfordshirementioning

confidence: 99%

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Healey

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The Economic History Review

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“…12 Until the Peterloo massacre of 1819, the people expected more from their monarch than their MPs, on several occasions sending up a petition of remonstrance to the king. 13 The age of reform changed all that. By the mid-nineteenth century elections were coming fast and furious, on average every 3.6 years.…”

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Brexit and the British Constitution: a Long View

Taylor¹

2019

Political Quarterly

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The Brexit referendum of 2016 brought a new concept to British politics, namely the ‘people’s will’, one that is seemingly at odds with conventional notions of parliamentary sovereignty, even a threat to its very existence. This article argues that although the device of the referendum is relatively new, the kind of popular control over Parliament and the executive that it invokes has long been a part of British politics. Ranging over 200 years, examples are drawn from the recall and deselection of MPs, mass petitioning campaigns, the role of the Speaker, and the flourishing of independent parties.

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“…She married a foreigner -an Irishman and a Catholic, and she became a Socialist! 77 From the middle years of the nineteenth century onwards, notions of titled returnee heirs, dispossessed claimants and exiled scions sustained a radical platform built, in part, around the notion of a restored golden age of feudal Arcadias. The Catlow family reaches back to the Norman lords of Oswaldtwistle.…”

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‘The pioneers of the great army of democrats’: the mythology and popular history of the British Labour party, 1890–1931

Taylor

2018

Hist Res

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Recent studies have highlighted the importance of memory, the past and a popular interpretation of history to the identities of political parties. This article takes the Labour party as an example of this tradition and analyses the ways in which its leaders, adherents and rank and file members mythologized the story of its traditions and forebears at the time of its foundation and subsequently. By analysing the periods of history, the individuals and the movements selected for this process, this article seeks to locate the popular history of the party in the currents of the radical and reform past that comprised the broader British radical tradition from the mid nineteenth century onwards. Assessing the affinities, precedents, and precursors that paved the way for labourism, this article demonstrates the political strands that fed through into the Labour platform and considers the ways in which an amateur understanding of the past enabled the generation that built the Labour party to undertake a selective and contentious appropriation of past events.

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French Revolution or Peasants' Revolt? Petitioners and Rebels in England from the Blanketeers to the Chartists

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Review of periodical literature published in 2009

Review of periodical literature published in 2009

Brexit and the British Constitution: a Long View

‘The pioneers of the great army of democrats’: the mythology and popular history of the British Labour party, 1890–1931

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