Crime Notes

Secondary sources

Robert Shoemaker, ‘Reforming the city: the reformation of manners campaign in London, 1690-1738′, in L Davison et al (eds), Stilling the grumbling hive: the response to social and economic problems in England 1689-1750.

Martin Ingram, ‘Reformation of manners in early modern England’, in P Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority in early modern England.

R von Friedeburg, ‘Reformation of manners and the social composition of offenders in an East Anglia cloth village: Earl’s Colne, Essex, 1531-1642′, Journal of British Studies, 29, (1990). [e-journal]

Primary source

Petition against an illegal alehouse

Alternatively: Prosecution for whoring

Secondary sources: choose at least one of the following

Alexandra Shepard, ‘Litigation and locality: the Cambridge university courts 1560-1640,’ Urban History, 31:1 (May, 2004) [e-journal]
CW Brooks, ‘Interpersonal conflict and civil litigation in England, 1640-1830,’ in A Beier et al (eds), The first modern English society.
JA Sharpe, ‘ “Such disagreement betwyx neighbours”: litigation and human relations in early modern England’, in John Bossy (ed), Disputes and settlements: law and human relations in the West.
Laura Gowing, ‘Gender and the language of insult in early modern London’, History Workshop Journal, 35 (1993).

Primary source: defamation litigation between Martha Ashton and Elizabeth Coates.
I have put a copy of the document extracts in Blackboard.

Alternatively, take a look at The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris

This class will be on Friday 17 March, back to the usual time and place.

Secondary sources

EP Thompson, ‘The moral economy of the eighteenth-century crowd’, Past & Present, 50 (1971) [in JSTOR] - also reprinted in his Customs in common, where it’s followed up by a new chapter reassessing reactions to and issues raised by the original, highly influential article.

Nicholas Rogers, ‘Riot and popular Jacobitism in early Hanoverian England’, in E Cruickshanks (ed), Ideology and conspiracy: aspects of Jacobitism; or the chapter on Jacobitism in Rogers’ book Crowds, culture and politics in Georgian Britain.

Online primary sources

The Norwich grain riots of 1766

(I’ve also put them in a document on Blackboard.)

There is quite a lot of material there; try to read as much of it as you can. What are the causes of unrest? What do the rioters do? How do authorities respond?