Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848

Katrina Navickas

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784996277
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The 'Peterloo Massacre' of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America.

Index

Acland, James 122–3

agency xii, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 115–16, 204, 275, 285

Aitken, William 309

America 25, 37, 48, 49, 50, 57, 247, 255, 303, 305, 306–9, 313

Anti-Corn Law League 13, 123, 168, 172, 211, 249, 254

Ashton-under-Lyne 42, 63, 78, 80, 103, 104, 106, 143–4, 151, 158, 162, 193–4, 196, 209, 234, 283, 290, 291–2, 304, 309

assembly rooms 2, 23, 24, 32, 33

Australia 310

Bacup 249, 294

Bagguley, John 68, 74

Bamford, Samuel 35, 46, 62, 63, 64, 69, 73, 77, 90, 96, 98, 227, 228, 229, 230

Bancroft, Reverend Thomas 38

Barnsley 66, 72, 80, 81, 92, 94, 104, 200, 230, 237, 239, 240, 280–1, 283, 307

Barrell, John 25, 32

Beverley 23, 30, 55, 167, 253, 256, 268, 270, 272

Birmingham 39, 121, 306

Blackburn 61, 77–8, 79, 80, 194, 196, 203, 271

Blackstone Edge 223–4, 240–2, 244, 245, 300

Bolton 23, 36, 37, 38, 55, 58, 60, 63, 70, 71, 73, 86, 92, 102,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Spaces of exclusion, 1789–1830
• II Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840s
• III Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place
• Select bibliography
• Index