Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815

Navickas, Katrina

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“…As Katrina Navickas has argued, volunteer activity critically involved 'a ritual and symbolic demonstration of local elite power over "public" space'. 46 These were sensibilities to which contemporary children were clearly attuned. The marching of local volunteers was a dramatic community event for children to witness and could spark individual modes of engagement and internalisation.…”

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Playing at Soldiers: British Loyalism and Juvenile Identities during the Napoleonic Wars

Gleadle¹

2014

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This article focuses on British children's play as a medium through which to examine the construction of loyalist identities during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The display of juvenile patriotic identities was a significant feature of the neighbourhood political cultures formed in response to the invasion threat. Turning the spotlight on the ‘cultural presence of children’ demonstrates the extent to which the young were not simply passive recipients of socialisation processes, but could be significant agents in the constitution and reproduction of cultures themselves.

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Playing at Soldiers: British Loyalism and Juvenile Identities during the Napoleonic Wars

Gleadle¹

2014

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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“…Petitioning over economic grievances, making little impact, had for some time been feeding through into demands for parliamentary reform. In the 1790s Lancashire's commercial and manufacturing interests were predominantly loyalist, and while asserting the economic interests of their trades they were careful to defend the political status quo (Navickas 2009). In May 1799, the Lancashire Association of Weavers appealed to the public that "we : : : are firmly attached to our King and Country.…”

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“…1-2). During the French and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815) issues of trade were politicized, with the demand for minimum-wage legislation extending the practice through the handloom-weaving communities of early industrial Lancashire (Navickas 2009). Large-scale petitioning campaigns, first against the slave trade and then against the economic blockade of continental Europe, mobilized middle-and working-class opinion.…”

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Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England

Poole¹

2019

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The national petitioning campaign for parliamentary reform in 1816–17 was the biggest such movement before Chartism. It generated more than 700 local petitions with approaching a million signatures, representing perhaps 25 percent of adult males and extending the political nation well into the working classes. It was particularly strong in the Lancashire manufacturing districts, where economic grievances such as hunger and exploitation were converted through petitioning into arguments for political reform. The moving figure was Major John Cartwright, a veteran reformer who emerges as a more radical figure than usually supposed. The rejection of so many petitions by Parliament provided a legitimation for remonstrance and resistance, feeding through into extraparliamentary protests such as the march of the Manchester “Blanketeers” in 1817 and the mass platform movement of 1819 and “Peterloo.” The research combines a study of the petitions and the radical press with a close examination of the Home Office material, yielding insights into both grassroots organization and the strategies of the authorities, local and national. While the strategy of mass action was defeated by repression, the right of the unenfranchised masses to engage in political petitioning was conceded in principle long before the advent of formal democracy.

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“…14 Radicalism was subdued during the threat of Napoleonic invasion, but war weariness led to a resurgence after 1807, as Katrina Navickas has highlighted in her recent study of popular politics in Lancashire. 15 Nevertheless, it is fair to say that the role of war in stimulating radicalism has been underappreciated, especially for the decades preceding the French Revolution.…”

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War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism

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The sources and nature of 'radicalism' in late eighteenth-century Britain have long been debated. At the same time, the impact of war on British politics, society and culture in this period has been underappreciated until recently. While war is recognized as having aided the spread of popular loyalism, its role in stimulating radicalism has been neglected. Based on study of the publications and letters of Richard Price (1723-91), this article highlights the influence of Anglo-French rivalry and war on the thought of a leading Rational Dissenter and champion of political reform.It was possible for J. G. A. Pocock to call Richard Price (1723-91) 'the first and original Left-Wing Intellectual' in British history because he provoked Edmund Burke to write his seminal conservative Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event (1790). 1 A leading 'Rational Dissenter' and Enlightenment intellectual in London, Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776) became one of the most widely read and debated pamphlets during the American Revolution. 2 The late eighteenth century saw the rise of modern popular politics in campaigns for parliamentary reform and abolition of the slave trade. Price embraced both causes. In 1780 he was a founding member of the Society for Constitutional Information, which sought to further the cause of parliamentary reform by disseminating pamphlets. Price was also a tireless advocate for religious liberty. A respected nonconformist clergyman, philosopher and mathematician, Price became one of the most famous and influential of late eighteenth-century British radicals. 3 The sources and nature of late eighteenth-century British radicalism have long been debated. A perceived change in parliamentary politics following the accession of George III in 1760 clearly played a role in causing a dramatic expansion of popular politics in the form of the 'Wilkes and Liberty' movement. 4 With the Jacobite threat receding into the past, and government positions opened to traditionally Tory families, nonconformist Dissenters became more willing to criticize the men and measures of the Hanoverian 1 J. G. A. Pocock, 'Radical criticisms of the whig order in the age between revolutions', in The Origins of

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Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815

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Playing at Soldiers: British Loyalism and Juvenile Identities during the Napoleonic Wars

Playing at Soldiers: British Loyalism and Juvenile Identities during the Napoleonic Wars

Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England

War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism

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