The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-century England - Hardcover
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The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law and England's last millenarian rising. The bloody Battle of Bosenden Wood, fought in a corner of rural Kent, was the culmination of a revolt led by the self-styled Sir William Courtenay. It was also, despite the greater fame of the 1830 Swing Riots, the last rising of the agricultural labourers. Barry Reay provides a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the abortive rising, its background and its social context, based on intensive research particularly in local archives. He presents a case-study of popular mobilization in 19th-century England, giving a portrait of the day-to-day existence of the farm labourer and the life of the village. Dr Reay explores the wider context of agrarian relations, rural reform, protest and control.
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a new and welcome departure in English rural historiography. --THES
brilliantly adopts Cobb's advocacy of the micro-study to underpin a superb examination of the 1838 Battle of Bosenden Wood -- Labour History Review
It is hard to imagine a better book on the subject than this -- TLS
a genuine tour de force of anthropological history -- Southern History
This is a gem of a study. The thoroughness of his approach and the rewards it brings reminds one most of E.P. Thompson's ... Whigs and Hunters. It makes one wish more social historians would be heretical and move from their "period". --Economic History Review
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Barry Reay holds the Keith Sinclair Chair in History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published extensively in early modern and modern social and cultural history and is the author or editor of eleven books, including Microhistories: Demography, Society, and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 (1996), Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750 (1998), and Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century (2004).
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