New approaches to the history of popular protest and resistance in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1900
Why?:
Over the past few years the history of popular protest, collective action and resistance in Britain and Ireland has undergone a renaissance. We now know much more about the Captain Swing riots, enclosure disputes, poor law debates, and a whole other range of protests and tactics used by the aggrieved and the subaltern. There are two distinctive elements of this new research: