Protest History or the History of Protest

Bibliographic Data

ID4494405
AuthorsKatrina Navickas (0000-0002-4498-9231, University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume73
Issue1
Pages302-307
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbr065
OpenAlexW2133249170
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

The history of popular protest and collective action in Britain and Ireland is currently enjoying a scholarly revival. New studies of early modern rebel-lions, rural resistance, the Luddite and ‘Captain Swing ’ agitation of the early nineteenth century, Chartism and other events and forms of protest are appearing, and many of the classic texts in the history of protest have re-cently been republished.1 Current approaches were explored at a workshop at the University of Hertfordshire on 1 July 2011.2 It was supported by a subsidy from History Workshop Journal, and in the History Workshop trad-ition the day was collaborative and experimental. The original agenda had two aims. The first was to consolidate and expand knowledge and meth-odological frameworks for the understanding of protest and resistance in Britain over the long term; the second, to develop a network of historians, cultural geographers and those involved in public history institutions on the topic of popular protest and resistance in Britain. We went some way to achieving these goals, although perhaps neither the

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