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The outbreaks of collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. Detailed studies abound — on the Levellers, the Diggers, fen rioters, food rioters, machinery riots, tithe riots, turnpike riots and so on. This book breaks new ground in that it attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions.

Seventy-five maps are included in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest changed over time, how particular forms of protest — riots connected with land, with food and with labour — altered as Britain developed from a predominantly feudal to a predominantly capitalist society.

Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Geography of Land Protests 1548-1860

2.1 Lowland England 1520-95

2.2 Lowland England 1596-1710

2.3 Upland England 1520-1650

2.4 Wales, Scotland and Upland England 1650-1860

2.5 Lowland England 1710-1860

2.6 1548-52

2.7 1580-1606

2.8 The Midland Revolt of 1607 John Martin

2.9 1608-39

2.10 1640-9

2.11 1650-1701

2.12 1702-39

2.13 The Levellers' Revolt in Galloway 1724 John W. Leopold

2.14 1740-79

2.15 1780-1831

2.16 1832-60

2.17 Attacks on Deer Parks 1640-1740

2.18 Opposition to Enclosure in Northamptonshire c1760-1800 Jeanette M. Neeson

3. The Geography of Food Riots 1585-1847

3.1 Introduction

3.2 1585-1649 John Walter

3.3 1660-1737

3.4 1740 Robert W. Malcolmson

3.5 1756-7 Jeremy N. Caple

3.6 1766 Dale E. Williams

3.7 1771-3

3.8 1776-93

3.9 1794-6

3.10 1799-1801

3.11 1810-18

3.12 1847 Eric Richards

3.13 North Midlands: August and September 1756 Jeremy N. Caple

3.14 Gloucestershire — Wiltshire 1766 Dale E. Williams

3.15 Devon 1795 and 1800-1 John Bohstedt

4 Turnpike Disturbances in the Eighteenth and Early-nineteenth Centuries

5 The Clubmen and Militia Protests

5.1 The Risings of the Clubmen in 1644-45 Garry Lynch

5.2 The Militia Riots of 1757 Jeremy N. Caple

5.3 Militia Riots 1795-8

6 The Geography of Protests by Agricultural Labourers 1790-1850

6.1 The Rise of an Agricultural Proletariat

6.2 The French Wars 1793-1815 and the First Oubreaks of Labourers' Protests

6.3 The Post-war Agricultural Depression and the Protests of the 1815-31 Period

6.4 The East Anglian Protests of 1816

6.5 The Agricultural Labourers' Protests of 1822

6.6 The Captain Swing Protests of 1830-31

6.7 After Swing

6.8 Anti Poor Law Movements and Rural Trade Unionism in the South-east 1835 John Lowerson

6.9 Protest in East Anglia Against the Imposition of the New Poor Law Anne Digby

6.10 The Agricultural Labourers' Protests in East Anglia in the 1840s

7 Rural Protest in Mid- and Late-Victorian Britain

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Rebecca Riots 1839-44 David J. V. Jones

7.3 The Spread of the Rebecca Riots 1842-44

7.4 Agricultural Trade Unionism in England 1872-94 John P. D. Dunbabin

7.5 The Kent and Sussex Labourers' Union 1872-95 Felicity Carlton

7.6 The Welsh Tithe War 1886-95 John P. D. Dunbabin

7.7 The Highland Land War 1881-96 James Hunter

References

Notes on Contributors

Index