Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500

First study to explore how protests are remembered

Draws together leading early modern and modern historians and historical geographers on 'new protest history'

Examines the interplay between memory, landscape and materiality and the uses of the past

First study to explore how protests are remembered Draws together leading early modern and modern historians and historical geographers on 'new protest history' Examines the interplay between memory, landscape and materiality and the uses of the past

Auteur

Carl J. Griffin is Reader in Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. His publications include The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest (2012) and Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 (2014). He is editor of Southern History and is co-editor of Rural History .

Briony McDonagh is Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Hull, UK. Her publications include Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700 - 1830 (2017) and Hull: Culture, History, Place (2017). She chairs the Historical Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) and co-edits Historical Geography .

Contenu

Remembering protest; Carl J. Griffin and Briony McDonagh.- Remembering Mousehold Heath; Nicola Whyte.- Landscape, memory and protest in the Midlands Rising of 1607; Briony McDonagh and Joshua Rodda.- Relating early modern depositions; Heather Falvey.- Remembering protest in the Forest of Dean c. 1612-1834; Simon Sandall.- Remembering protest in the late-Georgian plebeian home; Ruth Mather.- Prosecution, precedence and official memory: judicial responses and perceptions of Swing in Norfolk; Rose Wallis.- The politics of 'protest heritage'; Steve Poole.- Memory and the work of forgetting: telling protest in the English countryside; Carl J. Griffin.- Afterword; Andy Wood.