From Diggers to Dongas
The Land in English Radicalism, 1649-2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alun Howkins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| 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/54.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2108866197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 1 |
This is the text of a professorial inaugural lecture given at the University of Sussex in October 2001. It seeks to present a broad picture of English Radicalism in which the land has a central, if changing, place. It argues that the idea of the land as a lost ‘birthright’ has consistently informed radical movements from the Diggers in the seventeenth century though to the ‘tribes’ associated with anti-globalisation protests in the twentieth. However, this movement is not, and was not, one simply of ideas, rather it reflects the actual practice of radical and popular movements even where they had little or no ‘political’ programme. Thus land occupations from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries ‘act out’ the more formulated ideas of the Diggers or the Chartists. But these are not simply archaic or backward looking movements but reflect the changes in the social and economic structure. Thus while they draw on the past they also adapt to their different presents emerging and re-emerging in new ways which deny the wish of many historians to consign the land and its associated issues to the dustheap of history. The piece is offered in the spirit of a lecture not a finished academic article in the hope it will provoke debate, argument and hopefully revive radical and socialist historian's interest in the land.
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |