Introduction. Nineteenth-Century Protest Movements in Britain: A Survey of Historians’ Approaches
Abstrak
This article surveys the historiography of nineteenth and early twentieth century British protest movements and thus provides a broad framework for the contributions to this volume. It begins by providing a portrait of some of the key developments in the field, with a focus on the impact of post-war social history and the emergence of ‘history from below’. It then details some of the ways in which this body of work was built upon, challenged and consolidated in subsequent decades. A discussion of the type of sources exploited by historians working from a ‘bottom-up’ perspective is followed by some thoughts on the current state of protest studies in a British context. The contested ‘Britishness’ of nineteenth-century social and political movements is considered, along with the question of how historians today continue to study ordinary men and women in the past, and the movements they belonged to, in the words of Malcolm Chase, with both ‘empathy’ and ‘authenticity’.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (2)
Fabrice Bensimon
Rachel Rogers
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/133da
- Akses
- Open Access ✓