Class 6: Riot and popular politics
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?