Charlesworth - An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900

Volume 2

Edited by
ANDREW CHARLESWORTH

First published in 1983 by Croom Helm Ltd

This edition first published in 2018

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1983 Chapter 2.8, John E. Martin; Chapter 2.13, John W. Leopold; Chapter 2.18, J.M. Neeson; Chapter 3.2, John Walter; Chapter 3.4, Robert W. Malcolmson; Chapters 3.5, 3.13 and 5.2, Jeremy N. Caple; Chapter 3.6 and 3.14, Dale E. Williams; Chapter 3.12, Eric Richards; Chapter 3.15, John Bohstedt; Chapter 5.1, G.J. Lynch; Chapter 6.8, John Lowerson; Chapter 6.9, Anne Digby; Chapter 7.2, David J.V. Jones; Chapter 7.4 and 7.6, J.P.D. Dunbabin; Chapter 7.5, Felicity Carlton; Chapter 7.7, James Hunter; remainder, Andrew Charlesworth

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An Atlas of Rural Protest
in Britain 15481900

Edited by Andrew Charlesworth

1983 Chapter 2.8, John E. Martin; Chapter 2.13, John W. Leopold; Chapter 2.18, J.M. Neeson; Chapter 3.2, John Walter; Chapter 3.4, Robert W. Malcolmson; Chapters 3.5, 3.13 and 5.2, Jeremy N. Caple; Chapter 3.6 and 3.14, Dale E. Williams; Chapter 3.12, Eric Richards; Chapter 3.15, John Bohstedt; Chapter 5.1, G.J. Lynch; Chapter 6.8, John Lowerson; Chapter 6.9, Anne Digby; Chapter 7.2, David J.V. Jones; Chapter 7.4 and 7.6, J.P.D. Dunbabin; Chapter 7.5, Felicity Carlton; Chapter 7.7, James Hunter; remainder, Andrew Charlesworth

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

An Atlas of rural protest in Britain 1548-1900.

(Croom Helm historical geography series)

1. Collective behaviour

2. Great Britain Politics and Government 1485

I. Charlesworth, Andrew

322.440942$DA300

ISBN 0-7099-0703-6

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Biddies Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn

The Counties of England, Wales and Scotland

Land: 1548-52

Land: 1580-1606

The Midland Revolt of 1607: the Central Area

Land: 1607

Land: 1608-39

Land: 1640-9

Land: 1650-1701

The Levellers Revolt of 1724

Land: 1702-39

Land: 1740-79

Land: 1780-1831

Land: 1832-60

Deer Park: 1640-9

Deer Park: 1702-40

Opposition to Enclosure in Northamptonshire, 1760-1800

Protests over Food in Essex, 1772-1801

Food: 1585-1607

Food: 1608-39

Food: 1640-9

Food: 1660-1737

Food: 1740

Food: 1756-7

Food: 1766

Food: 1771-3

Food: 1776-93

Food: 1794-6

Food: 1799-1801

Food: 1810-13

Food: 1816-18

Food: 1847

Food Riots in the North Midlands, 16 August-7 September 1756

Gloucestershire Wiltshire, September 1766

Food Riots in Devon, 1795 and 1800-1

Turnpikes: 1727-1815

The Clubmen Rising of 1644-5

Militia: 1757

Militia: 1795-8

Labour: 1793-1805

Labour: 1815-16

Labour: 1822

Labour: 1829-31

East Anglia: Collective Protests, 1816

The Main Period of the 1822 Disturbances: 23 February-7 March

Tithes: 1830-1

Poor Law: 1830-1

Robbery and Burglary: 1830-1

The Waves of Rioting in Central Southern England: November-December 1830

Kent and Sussex: 1835

Protests Against the New Poor Law in East Anglia

Turnpike Gates: 1839-44

Mass Meetings: 1843-4

Other Collective Protests: 1842-4

Arson and Threatening Letters: 1842-4

The Spread of the Rebecca Riots: 1842-4

Agricultural Trade Unionism in England, 1873-4

Kent and East Sussex: KALPA and NALU Branches

Kent and East Sussex: KSLU Branches, 1872-9

Kent and East Sussex: KSLU Branches, 1880-7

Kent and East Sussex: KSLU Branches, 1888-94

The Welsh Tithe War, 1886-95

The Highland Land War, 1881-96

I was educated in a school and in a university department where my teachers were always regarded as personalities, fellow human beings, even if somewhat larger than life. That fascination for people, particularly fellow members of the academic community, has luckily never left me. I never tire of reading acknowledgements that show how a particular author is located at the centre of a particular network of friendships and acquaintances within the academic community. It is one of my greatest regrets today that university students now tend to regard their teachers as grey men nine-to-five office workers. Moreover, in a work of this kind where I have persuaded so many to contribute to the atlas and where I have borrowed so freely from their and other researchers work, I feel doubly justified in writing the type of preface I like to read and leave the methodological introduction quite properly to the first essay in the atlas. The grey men who would find what follows tiresome, will at this point pass on and safely pass on for they will not find any acknowledgement here. Such men and women have the ability to labour away on their own and so have no debts to pay. I am not of their number and could not have laboured away without the help, encouragement and in many cases friendship of the following.

First, Professor George Rud whose book The Crowd in History has been an inspiration throughout all my research on rural protest and whose encouragement at various times in my researches has been most welcome. Secondly, there are the scholars whom I have corresponded with and talked with and who have freely let me use their ideas. Amongst this group are the contributors to the atlas who allowed themselves to be persuaded by a geographer to take part in the project and to allow their data to be mapped. Of these I would like to single out in particular John Martin, Eric Richards and John Walter. Equally my thanks must go to Roger Wells, Clifford Davies, John Morrill, Ian Blanchard, John Styles, Julian Cornwall, Mike Beames, Edward Thompson and the late Andrew Appleby. For a geographer venturing into this historical territory many of them will not have realised how grateful I have been for their words of encouragement, persuading me that the work was valuable to them, when I had grave doubts that I was indulging in cheap and easy map correlations and comparisons.