Finding Captain Swing
Protest, Parish Relations, and the State of the Public Mind in 1830
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9969788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Jones (0000-0001-5089-4143, Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 429-458 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859009990332 |
| OpenAlex | W2158762350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the study of English popular protest was dominated by the work of Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé, and Edward Thompson, and it is no exaggeration to suggest that their combined approach became the standard against which all subsequent work was judged. It was seminal, innovative and crucial to the emergence of a new “history from below”. But it was, to a degree, also formulaic: it relied on a trusted framework that historians have since struggled to deviate from. Through a detailed investigation of a set of disturbances in Berkshire, England during the so-called “Swing riots”, this essay seeks to demonstrate that a continued reliance on this model can be seen to have stifled a more nuanced understanding of particular “moments” of protest in the locality, and in doing so it places a much greater emphasis on local social – and in particular, parochial – relations than has previously been the case. In sum, within the context of late-Hanoverian popular protest, this essay is a plea for a new “history from within” to supplement the (now venerable) tradition of “history from below”
Context (archaeology · Exaggeration · Media studies · Plea · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Psychology
The Dorchester Labourers and Swing's Aftermath in Dorset, 1830-8
Captain Swing in the North
Luddism, Machine-Breaking and the Swing Riots
La crise du Reform Bill, 1830-1832
A Stubborn, Intractable Body’
One For the (Farm) Workers? Perpetrator Risk and Victim Risk Transfer During the ‘Sevenoaks Fires’ of 1830
The Social Dynamics of Collective Action
The Interaction of Structural Factors and Diffusion in Social Unrest
Decoupling social movements from modernity
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |