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First published in 1994, this volume features an autobiography of
Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French
Revolution, along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an
important propagandist for agrarian reform, a critical follower of
Robert Owen, one of the first male supporters of the feminist
causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary
underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author,
political journalist and poet. His autobiography, published in
1845, has long been presumed lost - historians have had to make do
with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy
was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a
unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular
politics. This volume reprints the complete text with editorial
apparatus and supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's
other writing by Dr Malcolm Chase. The Life and Literary Pursuits
of Allen Davenport thus gives a unique insight into the cultural
and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo
and Chartism.
First published in 1994, this volume features an autobiography of
Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French
Revolution, along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an
important propagandist for agrarian reform, a critical follower of
Robert Owen, one of the first male supporters of the feminist
causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary
underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author,
political journalist and poet. His autobiography, published in
1845, has long been presumed lost - historians have had to make do
with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy
was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a
unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular
politics. This volume reprints the complete text with editorial
apparatus and supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's
other writing by Dr Malcolm Chase. The Life and Literary Pursuits
of Allen Davenport thus gives a unique insight into the cultural
and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo
and Chartism.
Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has
been marginalised in much recent scholarship. In a critical survey
from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, this book argues
for its reinstatement. Trade unionism is shown to be both
intrinsically important and to provide a window onto the broader
historical landscape; the evolution of trade union principles and
practices is traced from the seventeenth century to mid-Victorian
times. Underpinning this survey is an explanation of labour
organisation that reaches back to the fourteenth century.
Throughout, the emphasis is on trade union mentality and ideology,
rather than on institutional history. There is a critical focus on
the politics of gender, on the demarcation of skill and on the role
of the state in labour issues. New insight is provided on the
long-debated question of trade unions' contribution to social and
political unrest from the era of the French Revolution through to
Chartism.
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated
British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised
over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European
social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention
of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments
of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British
history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country
came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity
and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity.
Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage
of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal
movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based
throughout on original research (including newly discovered
material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement
which mobilised three million people at its height. The author
deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his
chapters with short 'Chartist Lives', relating the intimate and
personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will
become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early
Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.
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Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland,
1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United
Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and
forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the
processes and mechanisms through which order was maintained. This
book will be required reading for everyone interested in
late-Georgian and early nineteenth-century Britain or Ireland. 1820
is about much more than a single year. Locating the Queen Caroline
divorce crisis within a broader analysis of the challenges
confronting the government, it places that much-investigated
episode in a new light. It illuminates both the pivotal Tory
Ministry under Lord Liverpool and the Whigs (by turns febrile and
feeble) who opposed it. It is also a major contribution to our
understanding of popular radicalism and its political containment.
-- .
Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland,
1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United
Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and
forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the
processes and mechanisms through which order was maintained.
Available in paperback for the first time , this book will be
required reading for everyone interested in late-Georgian and early
nineteenth-century Britain or Ireland. 1820 is about much more than
a single year. Locating the Queen Caroline divorce crisis within a
broader analysis of the challenges confronting the government, it
places that much-investigated episode in a new light. It
illuminates both the pivotal Tory Ministry under Lord Liverpool and
the Whigs (by turns febrile and feeble) who opposed it. It is also
a major contribution to our understanding of popular radicalism and
its political containment. -- .
In a critical survey from the earliest times to the nineteenth
century, this book argues for the reinstatement of trade unionism.
Trade unionism is shown to be both intrinsically important and to
provide a window onto the broader historical landscape; the
evolution of trade union principles and practices is traced from
the seventeenth century to mid-Victorian times. Underpinning this
survey is an explanation of labour organisation that reaches back
to the fourteenth century. Throughout, the emphasis is on trade
union mentality and ideology, rather than on institutional history.
There is a critical focus on the politics of gender, on the
demarcation of skill and on the role of the state in labour issues.
New insight is provided on the long-debated question of trade
unions' contribution to social and political unrest from the era of
the French Revolution through to Chartism.
This book traces the development of agrarian ideas from the 1770s
through to Chartism, and seeks to explain why, in an era of
industrialization and urban growth, land remained one of the major
issues in popular politics. Malcolm Chase considers the
relationship between 'land consciousness' and early socialism;
attempts to create alternative communities; and contemporary
perceptions of nature and the environment. He concludes that, far
from being an anachronistic, utopian, and reactionary movement,
agrarianism was an integral part of the working class experience
and of radical politics.The People's Farm also provides the most
extensive study to date of Thomas Spence, and his followers the
Spenceans. New light is thrown on the Spa Fields and Cato Street
conspiracies, in which they were involved; but their true
significance lies in their contribution to English radicalism - a
key factor in shaping the politics of agrarian reform in the 1820s
and 1840s.
This book explores some of the main channels and bye-ways in the
history of Chartism; it considers: The place of Chartism within the
wider framework of Victorian politics The Chartist Land Plan The
impact of Canada's 1837-8 rebellions on Chartism Chartism's
endurance in Wales beyond the 1839 Rising The role of children in
Chartist campaigning Key questions in Chartist historiography
Chartism's impact on the mid-Victorian ethos of 'self-help', and on
the workings of parliamentary democracy Malcolm Chase's earlier
book Chartism: A New History was hailed as a landmark in published
works on Chartism. This collection, firmly located within Britain's
tradition of writing 'history from below', offers an unusually wide
variety of stimulating perspectives on key issues in the history of
what, effectively, was Britain's civil rights movement. Written in
an open, accessible style it will appeal to a wide range of
readers, specialist and non-specialist alike.
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