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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi EMBODYING THE MILITIA IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi Embodying the Militia in Georgian England MATTHEW McCORMACK 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Matthew McCormack 2015 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 2015 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2014960023 ISBN 978–0–19–870364–8 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi For Amy OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi Acknowledgements This book was made in Northampton, like shoes used to be. I am very grateful to colleagues past and present for their friendship and support, and the discussions on military matters that usually took place over fish and chips on a Friday lunchtime. I am particularly grateful to Ian Beckett, Zoe Dyndor, Drew Gray, Tim Reinke- Williams, Mark Rothery, Cathy Smith, and Jon Stobart, who all kindly read por- tions of the manuscript. I am also grateful to Northampton’s students for their reactions to the ideas that I tentatively tried out in lectures and seminars. In the wider profession, I am conscious that I have benefited from the generosity of a large number of scholars, and would in particular like to thank Ilya Berkovich, Rosi Carr, Erica Charters, Michèle Cohen, Stephen Conway, Gavin Daly, Fran Dodsworth, Sarah Goldsmith, Catriona Kennedy, Karen Harvey, Stuart Jones, Kevin Linch, Frank O’Gorman, Neil Ramsey, Philip Shaw, Hannah Smith, Glenn Steppler, and Amanda Vickery, as well as attendees at conferences and seminars too numerous to mention here. I would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, and the School of Social Sciences at the University of Northampton for providing fellow- ships and other financial assistance over the course of the project. At OUP, I would like to thank Christopher Wheeler for taking on the project, the anonymous readers for their invaluable feedback, and Cathryn Steele for seeing it through to completion. Finally, I would like to thank my family. Over the course of writing this book, I became a husband and a father, which, among other things, meant that I had to re-evaluate what it meant to be a historian of masculinity. I hope that Toby and Joseph will inherit their parents’ love of books: the early signs are encouraging. Amy, for your love and support, and for going well beyond the call of parental duty while I was shut away in the study trying to write, this book is for you. This book was conceived of as a series of case studies, several of which have appeared in print before. I am therefore grateful to the following publishers for permission to reproduce material in this book: Wiley Blackwell for ‘The New Militia: War, Politics and Gender in 1750s Britain’, Gender & History 19:3 (2007) (chapter 1). Cambridge University Press for ‘Citizenship, Nationhood, and Masculinity in the Affair of the Hanoverian Soldier, 1756’, The Historical Journal 49:4 (2006) (chapter 2). Liverpool University Press for ‘ “Turning out for Twenty-Days Amusement”: The Militia in Georgian Satirical Prints’, in E. Charters, E. Rosenhaft, and H. Smith (eds), Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 (2012) (chapter 3) and ‘Stamford Standoff: Honour, Status and Rivalry in the Georgian Military’, in K. Linch and M. McCormack (eds), Britain’s Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society 1715–1815 (2014) (chapter 6). Palgrave for ‘Liberty OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/30/2015, SPi viii Acknowledgements and Discipline: Militia Training Literature in Mid-Georgian England’, in C. Kennedy and M. McCormack (eds), Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750–1850: Men of Arms (2013) (chapter 5). Maney Publishing for ‘Supporting the Civil Power: Citizen Soldiers and the Gordon Riots’, The London Journal 37:1 (2012) (chapter 8). And Routledge for ‘ “A Species of Civil Soldier”: Masculinity, Policing and the Military in 1780s England’, in D. Barry and S. Broomhall (eds), A History of Police and Masculinities 1700–2010 (2012) (chapter 8). I am grateful to the following institutions for permission to reproduce images in the book. Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 11 appear courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Figure 5 is © National Portrait Gallery, London. Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 19 are © The Trustees of the British Museum. Figure 13 appears courtesy of Northamptonshire Record Office. Figure 14 appears courtesy of Norfolk Record Office (BUL 4/170, 610X8). Figures 15 and 16 appear courtesy of the Secretary of the Buckinghamshire Military Museums Trust. Figure 17 appears courtesy of the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum. Figure 18 appears courtesy of Lincolnshire Archives. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 05/21/2015, SPi Contents List of Figures xi Introduction 1 I. REPRESENTATION 1. Gender and the New Militia 13 2. The Affair of the Hanoverian Soldier 33 3. The Militia in Satirical Prints 54 II. PRACTICE 4. Numbering the Fighting Men 77 5. Training the Militia 93 6. Army versus Militia 109 7. The Material Life of the Militiaman 123 8. Supporting the Civil Power 156 9. Citizen Soldiers? 172 Conclusion 191 Bibliography 199 Index 213

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