Étiquette : Conditions sociales — Grande-Bretagne — 19e siècle
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Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th & early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives
Une journée d’études consacrée à la question au programme de l’Agrégation d’anglais : ‘Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne, 1811-1914’.
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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…