The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884

Nixon, Mark S.; Pentland, Gordon; Roberts, Matthew

doi:10.3366/jshs.2012.0034

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“…55 The act of gifting in Scottish radicalism has been explored by Nixon, Pentland and Roberts, highlighting how it could be an important ritual. 56 The emphasis on gifting that goes across female reform meetings perhaps reveals that the female reformers were utilising established radical and reform rituals while feminising them through the choice of the liberty cap.…”

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Sisters of the Earth: The Landscapes, Radical Identities and Performances of Female Reformers in 1819

Kitchener

2022

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Female reformers were radical activists during 1819. They attempted to forge a 'feminine' radicalism through connecting their politics to their domesticity and families. They organised meetings, processed to mass platform protests, crafted liberty caps and wrote letters. Commentators and observers satirised and insulted their efforts through print and press, producing a reading which considered the women to be unfeminine. This conflict between insiders and outsiders creates a 'female masculinity' and fragmented identities. Using an historical archaeology framework, this paper analyses the contested identities female reformers performed within radical landscapes and spaces.

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Sisters of the Earth: The Landscapes, Radical Identities and Performances of Female Reformers in 1819

Kitchener

2022

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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“…They were more, too, than the 'construction and performance of social memory' which, it has been argued, was the principal function of material objects within the culture of popular reform. 45 They had been integral to the performative culture of labour in earlier times, for example in processions celebrating textile workers' patron saint, Bishop Blaize. At Leeds in 1812 '[e]very apparatus of trade from the Comb to the loom was exhibited in carriages adapted to the purpose, and all working as in a regular factory'.…”

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The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s

Chase¹

2017

Parliamentary History

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Provincial perspectives are largely lacking in accounts of the emergence of the Second Reform Act, but a vigorous and innovative popular movement for reform emerged in the mid 1860s. A burgeoning newspaper press both conveyed and itself did much to create a sense of accelerating movement unparalleled since Chartism. Former Chartists, notably Ernest Jones, were significant organisers, but the infusion of this movement into communities hitherto untouched by organised popular politics was widespread. Formal organisations can be identified in at least 282 separate localities outside London. Conservative working men's associations, by contrast, were slow to emerge and ephemeral. A rich material and performative culture bore witness to workers’ sense of property in their skill, their education and importance as wealth creators, but also to the popular reform movement's profoundly gendered character. Though committed in principle to manhood suffrage, by the spring of 1867 working‐class reformers were largely reconciled to incremental change and middle‐class opinion about reform similarly softened. This is demonstrated in the history of the Reform League's ‘Yorkshire Department’ and the success of its president, Robert Meek Carter, at the 1868 parliamentary election in Leeds.

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Wright³

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The Economic History Review

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The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Sisters of the Earth: The Landscapes, Radical Identities and Performances of Female Reformers in 1819

Sisters of the Earth: The Landscapes, Radical Identities and Performances of Female Reformers in 1819

The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s

List of publications on the economic and social history ofGreatBritain andIreland published in 2012

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