Richard Huzzey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 202294 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Huzzey |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Huzzey |
| FIRMA | HUZZEY R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4765-9270 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From Repertoires to Recipes
This article examines approaches to the history of 19th‐century politics in Britain and Ireland in order to propose fruitful directions for further debate. It argues that historians should return to a more holistic view of the practices of political action and democratisation, reframing the divide between social movements, parties and popular politics through a focus on organising. We propose a shift from foregrounding franchise extension as the …
Women's campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945-1997
Petitioning provided a flexible repertoire for women’s political activity in the decades after 1945. Petitioning was a popular, widespread practice: aside from voting, signing a petition was one of the few political activities that engaged a majority of women. Building on a long tradition of British women as active petitioners, petitioning was used by a variety of different groups—local action groups, voluntary associations, political parties, pr…
Public Meetings, Respectable Requisitions, and Popular Politics in Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1769–1850
This article examines the practice of ‘requisitioning’ public meetings in Great Britain and Ireland. These written requests to office-holders emerged in Ireland and then Great Britain, following bitter contests over the authenticity and authority of addresses and meetings claiming to represent a county or town in the decade after 1769. If the Seditious Meetings Acts privileged meetings officially convened by local elites, they also codified the p…
Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, ca. 1780–1918
Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This article assesses the significance, variety, and context of petitioning to the Imperial Parliament from both the British Isles and the colonies. To do so, we present new data drawn from more than one million petitions sent to…
The Politics of Petitioning
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament, the administrative state, and local government. The article draws on a dataset of more than 1 million petit…
The Cambridge World History of Slavery, IV
This book is the fourth and final instalment of a thematic survey of slavery in human history. Beginning in the year of Haitian independence, around the zenith of chattel slavery as a legal institution, the chapters stretch into early twenty-first-century debates about illegal exploitation as ‘modern slavery’. This volume, edited by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher and David Richardson follows previous instalments in avoiding an…
Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture
This article analyses nearly one million petitions received by the House of Commons to reveal a culture of petitioning that recast the political culture of modern Britain and Ireland. It argues, first, that petitions provided a much more regular and continuous form of interaction between people and Parliament than elections. Second, petitioning-meaning the practices associated with the drafting, signing and presentation of petitions-enabled a vib…
A Microhistory of British Antislavery Petitioning
This article refines our understanding of abolitionism as “the first modern social movement” through a microhistory of abolitionism in an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British town. Examining requisitions, which collected signatures calling on a mayor to convene public meetings to launch parliamentary petitions or other associational activities, the article shows how antislavery mobilization in Plymouth grew amongst a multiplying variety of …
From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group
This essay traces the mutating place of the anglican bishops within the house of lords to explore revolutionary changes in the relationship between religion, parliament and political pressure from the late 17th to the 20th centuries. After the Restoration, the lords spiritual reoccupied a contested position in the upper chamber as representatives of the clerical estate of the realm. During the 18th century, they began to act as representatives of…
Contesting Interests
This introduction argues for the need to study ‘pressure’ and the Westminster parliament across three centuries, from roughly 1660 to 1914. While no definition will satisfy all researchers, this essay suggests that the category of ‘representative pressure’ is useful in highlighting those claims for special consideration by parliament which fell outside either the electoral system of representation or outright defiance of parliamentary sovereignty…
Proslavery Britain
This is the first book to focus on the opponents of the campaigns for British slave-trade abolition and the emancipation of West Indian slaves during the well-known struggles of 1787–1833. It is a path-breaking study, which ably reveals the contours of, and surveys the turns in, pro-slavery politics and propaganda. There have been eminent studies of slave-owners’ lobbying, of particular West India merchants and their close relationship to the Cit…
Race, Anti-Caste and the Victorians
Benjamin Disraeli famously declared ‘all is race’, but historians of Victorian Britain find it puzzling to decide what exactly ‘race’ was, even as they establish its importance. Just a few years after Disraeli voiced this rule in Tancred (1847), the Scottish ethnologist Robert Knox similarly asserted that ‘race is everything’ in his Races of Man (1850), his ‘philosophical enquiry into the influence of race over the destinies of nations’.1 An anat…
Disease, Resistance, and Lies
In 1849, just a year before Brazilian politicians acted to suppress the illegal slave trade to their country, two of them died following an outbreak of yellow fever introduced into the state of Bahia by infected mariners. Readers of this intriguing and innovative book by Dale Graden will not shed any tears for Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos and the Viscount of Maché: Both men fervently defended the slave trade and opposed efforts to stop it. How…
Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Few people visiting the genteel Devon resort of Sidmouth will have realised that its founder, Emanuel Lousada, made much of his wealth from slave ownership. Historians will now be more aware of these unexpected connections thanks to researchers at University College London, and, in summer 2015, a great many BBC 2 viewers followed their findings on the screen. This book, by Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rac…
Final Passages
As this book notes, 15 per cent of the 2.7 million Africans stolen to British colonies endured a further voyage after the much-studied transoceanic ‘middle passage’, following their first passage from capture to the West African coast. Gregory O’Malley’s account of the reshipment of Africans within the Americas is a deeply impressive work of history, both in style and substance. His book bears the weight of its overlooked but terrible subject sen…
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
Almost fifty years after the first book, David Brion Davis has completed the trilogy inaugurated by his Pulitzer Prize-winning Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and continued in the Bancroft Prize-winning Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975). His fertile career of research and publishing has stimulated a sub-field of national or comparative ‘slavery studies’. A victim of his own success, confronting such a vast historiogr…
Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this 19th-century campaign.
From Peace to Freedom
Journal Article From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761, by Brycchan Carey Get access From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761, by Brycchan Carey (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2012; pp. 257. £25). Richard Huzzey Richard Huzzey University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume …
British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History
British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History, edited by Donald A. Yerxa, Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, 286 pp., US$49.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-61117-015
Freedom Burning
Combining groundbreaking research, powerful argument, and arresting writing, Freedom Burning offers the first complete history of anti-slavery politics and culture in Queen Victoria's Britain and her Empire.
Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865
Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865 EDITED BY ELIZABETH J. CLAPP AND JULIE ROY JEFFREY New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 Pp. 214, £65.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 1995
The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law
The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law, by Jenny S. Martinez, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 254 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780195391626 In 1851 the Prime Min
Minding Civilisation and Humanity in 1867
As this analysis of press debate in 1867 finds, Victorian opposition to slavery defies any simple classification as universal humanitarianism or imperial reform. British anti-slavery sentiment, in very different contexts, might claim the mantle of Christendom, the empire or human civilisation. By considering such a porous area of international and colonial policy in public discussion, this article highlights some surprising commonalities between …
Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement
Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement, by Christine Kinealy, London, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, ii + 218 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-8519-6633-2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X
The Moral Geography of British Anti-Slavery Responsibilities
By examining British anti-slavery debates across a longue durée – before and after West Indian emancipation – the basis of moral responsibility for political action may be reassessed. Recent interest in humanitarian or transnational compassion may have underappreciated the geographical limitations of the moral responsibility Britons assumed for slavery and the slave trade. The notion of national complicity was crucial in mobilising individual Bri…
Freedom Burning
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of “anti-slavery” as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced abolition worldwide and an anxious public debated the true responsibilities of an anti-slavery nation. This crusa…
Free Trade, Free Labour, and Slave Sugar in Victorian Britain
This article reconsiders the sugar duties controversy in early Victorian Britain. Rather than representing the defeat of abolitionism by free trade zeal, the sugar question was a contest of two varieties of anti-slavery thought which had previously co-existed: one believing that slavery's immorality was accompanied by its productive inferiority to free labour and the other asserting that slavery's profits in this world were punished outside the m…
Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, ca. 1780–1918
Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This article assesses the significance, variety, and context of petitioning to the Imperial Parliament from both the British Isles and the colonies. To do so, we present new data drawn from more than one million petitions sent to…
The Politics of Petitioning
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament, the administrative state, and local government. The article draws on a dataset of more than 1 million petit…
Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture
This article analyses nearly one million petitions received by the House of Commons to reveal a culture of petitioning that recast the political culture of modern Britain and Ireland. It argues, first, that petitions provided a much more regular and continuous form of interaction between people and Parliament than elections. Second, petitioning-meaning the practices associated with the drafting, signing and presentation of petitions-enabled a vib…
Minding Civilisation and Humanity in 1867
As this analysis of press debate in 1867 finds, Victorian opposition to slavery defies any simple classification as universal humanitarianism or imperial reform. British anti-slavery sentiment, in very different contexts, might claim the mantle of Christendom, the empire or human civilisation. By considering such a porous area of international and colonial policy in public discussion, this article highlights some surprising commonalities between …
The Moral Geography of British Anti-Slavery Responsibilities
By examining British anti-slavery debates across a longue durée – before and after West Indian emancipation – the basis of moral responsibility for political action may be reassessed. Recent interest in humanitarian or transnational compassion may have underappreciated the geographical limitations of the moral responsibility Britons assumed for slavery and the slave trade. The notion of national complicity was crucial in mobilising individual Bri…
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783–1807
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783–1807, by David Beck Ryden, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xvii + 330 pp., £48.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-48659-0 For more than 50 ye
A Microhistory of British Antislavery Petitioning
This article refines our understanding of abolitionism as “the first modern social movement” through a microhistory of abolitionism in an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British town. Examining requisitions, which collected signatures calling on a mayor to convene public meetings to launch parliamentary petitions or other associational activities, the article shows how antislavery mobilization in Plymouth grew amongst a multiplying variety of …
Free Trade, Free Labour, and Slave Sugar in Victorian Britain
This article reconsiders the sugar duties controversy in early Victorian Britain. Rather than representing the defeat of abolitionism by free trade zeal, the sugar question was a contest of two varieties of anti-slavery thought which had previously co-existed: one believing that slavery's immorality was accompanied by its productive inferiority to free labour and the other asserting that slavery's profits in this world were punished outside the m…
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783–1807
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783–1807, by David Beck Ryden, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xvii + 330 pp., £48.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-48659-0 For more than 50 ye
Freedom Burning
Combining groundbreaking research, powerful argument, and arresting writing, Freedom Burning offers the first complete history of anti-slavery politics and culture in Queen Victoria's Britain and her Empire.
Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865
Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865 EDITED BY ELIZABETH J. CLAPP AND JULIE ROY JEFFREY New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 Pp. 214, £65.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 1995
The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law
The slave trade and the origin of international human rights law, by Jenny S. Martinez, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 254 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780195391626 In 1851 the Prime Min
Minding Civilisation and Humanity in 1867
As this analysis of press debate in 1867 finds, Victorian opposition to slavery defies any simple classification as universal humanitarianism or imperial reform. British anti-slavery sentiment, in very different contexts, might claim the mantle of Christendom, the empire or human civilisation. By considering such a porous area of international and colonial policy in public discussion, this article highlights some surprising commonalities between …
Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement
Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement, by Christine Kinealy, London, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, ii + 218 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-8519-6633-2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X
The Moral Geography of British Anti-Slavery Responsibilities
By examining British anti-slavery debates across a longue durée – before and after West Indian emancipation – the basis of moral responsibility for political action may be reassessed. Recent interest in humanitarian or transnational compassion may have underappreciated the geographical limitations of the moral responsibility Britons assumed for slavery and the slave trade. The notion of national complicity was crucial in mobilising individual Bri…
Freedom Burning
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of “anti-slavery” as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced abolition worldwide and an anxious public debated the true responsibilities of an anti-slavery nation. This crusa…
British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History
British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History, edited by Donald A. Yerxa, Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, 286 pp., US$49.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-61117-015
From Peace to Freedom
Journal Article From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761, by Brycchan Carey Get access From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761, by Brycchan Carey (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2012; pp. 257. £25). Richard Huzzey Richard Huzzey University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume …
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
Almost fifty years after the first book, David Brion Davis has completed the trilogy inaugurated by his Pulitzer Prize-winning Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and continued in the Bancroft Prize-winning Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975). His fertile career of research and publishing has stimulated a sub-field of national or comparative ‘slavery studies’. A victim of his own success, confronting such a vast historiogr…
Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this 19th-century campaign.
Disease, Resistance, and Lies
In 1849, just a year before Brazilian politicians acted to suppress the illegal slave trade to their country, two of them died following an outbreak of yellow fever introduced into the state of Bahia by infected mariners. Readers of this intriguing and innovative book by Dale Graden will not shed any tears for Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos and the Viscount of Maché: Both men fervently defended the slave trade and opposed efforts to stop it. How…
Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Few people visiting the genteel Devon resort of Sidmouth will have realised that its founder, Emanuel Lousada, made much of his wealth from slave ownership. Historians will now be more aware of these unexpected connections thanks to researchers at University College London, and, in summer 2015, a great many BBC 2 viewers followed their findings on the screen. This book, by Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rac…
Final Passages
As this book notes, 15 per cent of the 2.7 million Africans stolen to British colonies endured a further voyage after the much-studied transoceanic ‘middle passage’, following their first passage from capture to the West African coast. Gregory O’Malley’s account of the reshipment of Africans within the Americas is a deeply impressive work of history, both in style and substance. His book bears the weight of its overlooked but terrible subject sen…
Race, Anti-Caste and the Victorians
Benjamin Disraeli famously declared ‘all is race’, but historians of Victorian Britain find it puzzling to decide what exactly ‘race’ was, even as they establish its importance. Just a few years after Disraeli voiced this rule in Tancred (1847), the Scottish ethnologist Robert Knox similarly asserted that ‘race is everything’ in his Races of Man (1850), his ‘philosophical enquiry into the influence of race over the destinies of nations’.1 An anat…
From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group
This essay traces the mutating place of the anglican bishops within the house of lords to explore revolutionary changes in the relationship between religion, parliament and political pressure from the late 17th to the 20th centuries. After the Restoration, the lords spiritual reoccupied a contested position in the upper chamber as representatives of the clerical estate of the realm. During the 18th century, they began to act as representatives of…
Contesting Interests
This introduction argues for the need to study ‘pressure’ and the Westminster parliament across three centuries, from roughly 1660 to 1914. While no definition will satisfy all researchers, this essay suggests that the category of ‘representative pressure’ is useful in highlighting those claims for special consideration by parliament which fell outside either the electoral system of representation or outright defiance of parliamentary sovereignty…
Proslavery Britain
This is the first book to focus on the opponents of the campaigns for British slave-trade abolition and the emancipation of West Indian slaves during the well-known struggles of 1787–1833. It is a path-breaking study, which ably reveals the contours of, and surveys the turns in, pro-slavery politics and propaganda. There have been eminent studies of slave-owners’ lobbying, of particular West India merchants and their close relationship to the Cit…
A Microhistory of British Antislavery Petitioning
This article refines our understanding of abolitionism as “the first modern social movement” through a microhistory of abolitionism in an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British town. Examining requisitions, which collected signatures calling on a mayor to convene public meetings to launch parliamentary petitions or other associational activities, the article shows how antislavery mobilization in Plymouth grew amongst a multiplying variety of …
The Cambridge World History of Slavery, IV
This book is the fourth and final instalment of a thematic survey of slavery in human history. Beginning in the year of Haitian independence, around the zenith of chattel slavery as a legal institution, the chapters stretch into early twenty-first-century debates about illegal exploitation as ‘modern slavery’. This volume, edited by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher and David Richardson follows previous instalments in avoiding an…
Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture
This article analyses nearly one million petitions received by the House of Commons to reveal a culture of petitioning that recast the political culture of modern Britain and Ireland. It argues, first, that petitions provided a much more regular and continuous form of interaction between people and Parliament than elections. Second, petitioning-meaning the practices associated with the drafting, signing and presentation of petitions-enabled a vib…
Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, ca. 1780–1918
Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This article assesses the significance, variety, and context of petitioning to the Imperial Parliament from both the British Isles and the colonies. To do so, we present new data drawn from more than one million petitions sent to…
The Politics of Petitioning
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament, the administrative state, and local government. The article draws on a dataset of more than 1 million petit…
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