Social Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside in the early Nineteenth Century: A Rejoinder

Wells, Roger

doi:10.1080/03066158108438149

The Journal of Peasant Studies

1981

DOI: 10.1080/03066158108438149

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Social Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside in the early Nineteenth Century: A Rejoinder

Roger Wells

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“…The piece invites a reexamination of the Wells-Charlesworth debate (Charlesworth, 1980;Reed and Wells, 1990;Wells, 1979Wells, , 1980. If the early nineteenth century was a period in which the final erosion of early modern patterns of protest occurred, it might appear almost inevitable that personal, surreptitious, ad hoc forms of protest (animal maiming, arson, vindictive personal attacks on property, anonymous letter writing) should take place in the resulting vacuum.…”

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Rural History and Popular Culture

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This issue of Rural History has greater thematic coherence than previous numbers, with all the papers having some relation to the study of ‘popular culture’, while coming from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each of the articles develops a key area of analysis, but their juxtaposition helps to raise further questions – about the kinds of sources that can be used to redress the bias towards the elite that has tended to dominate the study of culture, and about the problems involved in the handling of such sources. How do concepts of class, sectional, or gender interest relate to the sense of place and local identity? How can we detect such ideas within the historical record? How should we proceed in attempting to reconstruct popular and regional consciousness?

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The Culture of Combination: Solidarities and Collective Action Before Tolpuddle

Griffin

2015

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A B S T R A C T . Beyond the repression of the national waves of food rioting during the subsistence crises of the s, workers in the English countryside lost the will and ability to mobilize. Or so the historical orthodoxy goes. Such a conceptualization necessarily positions the 'Bread or Blood' riots of , the Swing rising of , and, in particular, the agrarian trade unionism practised at Tolpuddle in  as exceptional events. This article offers a departure by placing Tolpuddle into its wider regional context. The unionists at Tolpuddle, it is shown, were not making it up as they went along but instead acted in ways consistent with shared understandings and experiences of collective action and unionism practised throughout the English west. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the forms of collective action -and judicial responses -that extended between different locales and communities and which joined farmworkers, artisans, and industrial workers together. So conceived, Tolpuddle was not an exception. Rather, it can be more usefully understood as a manifestation of deeply entrenched cultures, an episode that assumes its historical potency because of its subsequent politicized representations.Beyond the machine breaking of the Luddites in -, arguably no act of protest in modern Britain, whatever the context, is so well known and notorious as the arrest, trial, and subsequent transportation in early  of six agricultural labourers from the Dorset parish of Tolpuddle on the charge of having issued illegal oaths.  'For many years', as John Archer put it, 'it was believed that, with the exception of Swing and Tolpuddle, there were few rural events worth investigating'.

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‘Give us land and plenty of it’: the ideological basis to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands

Withers¹

1990

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Social Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside in the early Nineteenth Century: A Rejoinder

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The Culture of Combination: Solidarities and Collective Action Before Tolpuddle

‘Give us land and plenty of it’: the ideological basis to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands

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