Catégorie : Reading the Riot Act
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The Newport Rising, 1839 – Reading the Riot Act #3
I talk to Matthew Roberts, a historian of Chartism at Sheffield Hallam University, about the Chartist rising which took place in Newport, South Wales, in November 1839, just after Parliament had rejected the first national petition for the People’s Charter. Chartism was a mass, working-class movement for democratic reform which emerged in industrialising Britain in…
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The Luddite protests, 1811-12 / Reading the Riot Act #2
In this episode, the focus is on the ‘Luddite’ movement of 1811-12 when machine-breaking actions proliferated in the English cloth-making counties of Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire. In discussion with Katrina Navickas, a historian of British popular protest in the North who lectures at the University of Hertfordshire, the origin of the movement and the…
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The Gordon Riots, 1780 / Reading the Riot Act #1
This episode looks in depth at the Gordon riots which took place in London in June 1780. What has often been seen as an anti-Catholic protest, occurring when Britain was fighting to retain its prized American mainland colonies, is given further thought in the company of Ian Haywood, Professor of English at the University of…