Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500

260 Pages·2018·3.197 MB·English

by  Carl J. Griffin, Briony McDonagh

REMEMBERING PROTEST IN
B R I T A I N
S I N C E 1 5 0 0
MEMORY, MATERIALITY AND THE LANDSCAPE
- EDITED BY -
CARL J. GRIFFIN AND BRIONY MCDONAGH
Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500
Carl J. Griffin • Briony McDonagh
Editors
Remembering Protest
in Britain since 1500
Memory, Materiality and the Landscape
Editors
Carl J. Griffin Briony McDonagh
University of Sussex University of Hull
Brighton, UK Hull, UK
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To the memory of the wage labourer, the threshing machine breaker, the
‘obsolete’ commoner, the radical housewife, the ‘utopian’ Chartist, and
‘stowte’ John Bussey.
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ontents
Remembering Protest 1
Carl J. Griffin and Briony McDonagh
Remembering Mousehold Heath 25
Nicola Whyte
Landscape, Memory and Protest in the Midlands Rising of
1607 53
Briony McDonagh and Joshua Rodda
Relating Early Modern Depositions 81
Heather Falvey
Remembering Protest in the Forest of Dean, c.1612–1834 107
Simon Sandall
Remembering Protest in the Late-Georgian Working-Class
Home 135
Ruth Mather
Prosecution, Precedence and Official Memory: Judicial
Responses and Perceptions of Swing in Norfolk 159
Rose Wallis
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viii CONTENTS
The Politics of ‘Protest Heritage’, 1790–1850 187
Steve Poole
Memory and the Work of Forgetting: Telling Protest in the
English Countryside 215
Carl J. Griffin
Afterword: Landscapes, Memories and Texts 237
Andy Wood
Index 245
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otes on ontributors
Heather Falvey is a Panel Tutor in Local and Social History for the
Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge and for
the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.
She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern cus-
tom and protest and is the Editorial Assistant for the Economic History
Review.
Carl  J. Griffin is Head of Department and Reader in Historical
Geography at the University of Sussex. An historical geographer of rural
England from the Restoration to the mid-nineteenth century, his work has
embraced histories of popular protest, including the first recent revisionist
study of the Swing riots, more-than-human histories, and histories of
labour and welfare. He is author of The Rural War: Captain Swing and the
Politics of Protest (2012) and Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England,
1700–1850 (Palgrave, 2014). He is co-editor of Rural History and
Southern History.
Ruth Mather is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of
Exeter. Her research interests include the roles of class and gender in pop-
ular politics, the potential of material culture for historical study, and wid-
ening participation in historical research. She recently completed her PhD
‘The home making of the English working class: radical politics and
domestic life in late Georgian England, c. 1790–1820’ at Queen Mary,
University of London.
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x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Briony  McDonagh is a historical and cultural geographer at the
University of Hull. She is the author of Elite Women and the Agricultural
Landscape, 1700–1830 (2017) and co-editor of Hull: Culture, History,
Place (2017). She has published widely on the geographies of property,
enclosure, protest and the law, on women’s histories, and on the history of
the British landscape. She is Chair of the Historical Geography Research
Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British
Geographers) and co-director of the University of Hull’s Gender, Place
and Memory research cluster.
Steve Poole is Professor of History and Heritage at the University of the
West of England, where he also directs the Regional History Centre. He
researches English history from below in the long eighteenth century, and
also works with partners in the creative industries on public mobile/digital
applications for the historic landscape. His recent publications include
John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon (2009), ‘Ghosts in
the Garden: Locative Gameplay and Historical Interpretation from Below’
(International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2017) and, with Nick Rogers,
Bristol From Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (2017).
Joshua  Rodda is research assistant on McDonagh’s current British
Academy-funded project, Experiencing the Landscape. He is an early career
researcher and tutor working at the University of Nottingham and the
University of Leicester, specialising in the religious, cultural and political
history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His first
book, Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558–1626, was published
in 2014, and he is currently working on the fictional religious dialogue
during and after the Reformation.
Simon Sandall is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the
University of Winchester. His research interests are in the areas of custom,
law and community, particularly how these relations underpinned popular
politics and popular protest in Early Modern England. His initial work
examined the nature of collective memory and its relation to the organisa-
tion of popular protest in the Forest of Dean between the sixteenth and
nineteenth centuries and is currently examining the relation between
shame and popular litigation during this period. He is the author of
Custom and Popular Memory in the Forest of Dean, c. 1550–1832 (2013).
Rose Wallis lectures in British social history at the University of the West
of England and is Associate Director of the Regional History Centre
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(UWE). Her research examines the relationship between magistrates and
their communities, focusing on crime, criminal justice, protest and ‘his-
tory from below’ in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century rural
England. Her thesis, completed at UWE, is entitled ‘The relationship
between magistrates and their communities in the age of crisis: social pro-
test c. 1790–1834’.
Nicola Whyte is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter
and author of Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory,
1500–1800 (2009). She has wide-ranging interests in the landscape and
social history of the post-medieval and early modern periods. Her current
research explores the meanings and experiences of landscape in everyday
contexts. She is particularly interested in landscape and memory, attitudes
towards the physical remains of the past, patterns of appropriation, rein-
terpretation and reuse.
Andy Wood is Professor of Social History at Durham University. He
writes about the poorer and middling people of Tudor, Stuart and
Georgian England, and has published on a wide range of issues, including
popular politics, class relations, rebellion, the mid-Tudor crisis, the English
Revolution, local communities, literacy, oral culture, memory and cus-
tomary law. His most recent book The Memory of the People: Custom and
Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England (2013) won the
American Historical Association’s 2014 Leo Gershoy Award. He is also
the author of The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520–1770
(1999), Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
(2002) and The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
(2007).