The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England

Poole, Robert

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“…Chase have furthermore placed the processions of the radical societies within the rich context of popular folk custom and working life of the textile districts of the region. 5 This article examines the wider geographies of Peterloo. It calls on historians to consider the event through di erent spatial levels, stretching from the microlocal to the regional to the national.…”

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The Multiple Geographies of Peterloo and Its Impact in Britain

Navickas

2019

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

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The Peterloo Massacre was more than just a Manchester event. The attendees, on whom Manchester industry depended, came from a large spread of the wider textile regions. The large demonstrations that followed in the autumn of 1819, protesting against the actions of the authorities, were pan-regional and national. The reaction to Peterloo established the massacre as firmly part of the radical canon of martyrdom in the story of popular protest for democracy. This article argues for the significance of Peterloo in fostering a sense of regional and northern identities in England. Demonstrators expressed an alternative patriotism to the anti-radical loyalism as defined by the authorities and other opponents of mass collective action.

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Section: Robert Poole and Malcolmmentioning

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2019

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“…In two articles, Woodfine draws on Yorkshire manuscript sources and petitions to offer a more pessimistic view of conditions in debtors’ prisons than that offered in recent literature. The trial in 1820 of Henry Hunt, Samuel Bamford, and others in the wake of the Peterloo ‘massacre’ is examined by Poole, who compares descriptions of the marches given by the defendants and their witnesses as a kind of ‘festive village outing’ with those of the Crown which depicted them as resembling a military operation. Elsewhere, Shoemaker extends his interest in London criminality by stressing the dichotomy between the ‘street robber’ and the ‘gentleman highwayman’.…”

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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“…Queen Caroline fever was both spontaneous and contrived, Whilst it is true that, as Robert Poole observes, 'no subsequent radical cause offered the same potential for subversive 13 13 loyalty as the Queen Caroline affair', 23 it was a key stage in the development of a more-nationalised politics, anticipating (or moreaccurately laying a foundation for) the reform movement a decade later and, even, Chartism. Its effectiveness in mobilising hitherto largely latent radical sentiment is evident in Stockton-on-Tees, generally 'considered the very pink and essence of loyalty' at the time.…”

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Caroline Fever, Robert Chaloner and the North Riding Whigs

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2015

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The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England

Cited by 10 publications

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The Multiple Geographies of Peterloo and Its Impact in Britain

The Multiple Geographies of Peterloo and Its Impact in Britain

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Caroline Fever, Robert Chaloner and the North Riding Whigs

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