About a Play
Stanley Middleton's Pentrich Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Steedman (0000-0001-8175-1161, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Pages | 84-108 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbac026 |
| OpenAlex | W4295113663 |
| Language | EN |
A school play about the Pentrich Revolution (1817) and Jeremiah Brandreth its 'leader', scripted in 1970-71 by teacher and novelist Stanley Middleton, reveals the history of teaching about Pentrich, to adults and children, over the previous century. Middleton's use of the Nottinghamshire dialect to write history, in the play and his many novels, is a focus of the article
Art · Focus (optics) · Literature · Physics · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |