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6HUM1011: Protest, Riots, Reform

6HUM1011: Protest, Riots, Reform. Lecture 8: Rural Resistance. Structure of the lecture. Source of the week What was rural resistance? – incendiarism , enclosure riots, animal and tree-maiming. Bread and Blood and back to Captain Swing. Source of the week: Dorset Ooser. Warning no 1:.

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6HUM1011: Protest, Riots, Reform

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  1. 6HUM1011: Protest, Riots, Reform Lecture 8: Rural Resistance

  2. Structure of the lecture • Source of the week • What was rural resistance? – incendiarism, enclosure riots, animal and tree-maiming. • Bread and Blood and back to Captain Swing

  3. Source of the week: Dorset Ooser

  4. Warning no 1: • ‘class is not always reducible to protest and resistance’. • ‘conflict and protest are not one and the same thing’. Steve Poole, ‘A lasting and salutary warning’: Incendiarism, Rural Order and England’s Last Scene of Crime Execution’, Rural History, 19:2 (2008), 164.

  5. Custom, ritual, and protest – charivari and ‘rough music’ ‘Hints to Forestallers, or a sure way to reduce the price of grain’, August 1800, British Museum

  6. Custom and ritual Hastings morris men Early nineteenth century Jack in the Green, London

  7. J.M. Neeson, Commoners, Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 (Cambridge, 1996), 191. Northampton Mercury, 29 July 1765 – • ‘West Haddon, Northants, July 27th 1765. This is to give notice to all Gentlemen Gamesters and Well Wishers to the Cause New In Hand, that there will be a foot-ball play in the fields of Haddon on Thursday 1st day of August for a Prize of considerable value...’ Northampton Mercury, 5 August 1765 – • ‘On Thursday and Friday last a great number of People being assembled there, in order to play a Football Match, soon after meeting formed themselves into a Tumultuous Mob, and pulled up and burnt the fences designed for the Inclosure of that Field...’

  8. Incendiarism

  9. Bury & Norwich Post, 28 May 1816 "I have just returned from the place where the rioters have assembled to the amount of 200 people armed with implements of agriculture as weapons. Last night they destroyed Mr John Smith's threshing machines then this morning they visited Mr Robert Smith's farm at Byton Hall and destroyed a plough on a new construction. On Friday last there was a crowd of nearly 200, armed with axes, saws, spades etc, when they entered the village of GtBardfield with the intention of destroying threshing machines, mole ploughs etc, they made their attack on the premises of Mr Philip Spicer who had the spirit and resolution to defend his property with the assistance of 20 of his neighbours who were unarmed and by the Waterloo movement got between the rioters and the barn where the machines were and they wisely retreated."

  10. East Anglian disturbances, 1821-2 http://www.foxearth.org.uk/Emigration2.html

  11. Captain Swing ‘An original portrait of Captain Swing’, 1830, British Museum

  12. Map of suspected ‘Swing incidents’, 1830-34, from Michael Holland, ‘Swing Revisited’, Family and Community History, 7:2 (2004), 91

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