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In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land enclosure, and riots targeting religious groups and foreigners regularly occurred. In the following century, mass gatherings demanded reform of the electoral system which allowed only a tiny proportion of the population to vote. In the early twentieth century, suffragettes chained themselves to railings, took part in huge demonstrations and endured prison sentences in pursuit of the vote for women. Recent decades have seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets of London and other cities to protest against the Iraq War and, in the last year, the war in Gaza.
The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how they have exercised that power over the centuries and how governments have reacted to it. From the so-called Peasants' Revolt to Just Stop Oil, via the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, Luddites breaking machinery which threatened their livelihood, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, the Chartist demonstrations of the 1830s and 1840s, 1887's Bloody Sunday and many other, often violent events, Nick Rennison provides a concise, compelling account of popular protest in Britain.
Contents
Amongst the subjects covered will be:
Medieval to Eighteenth Century -
Peasants' Revolt 1381 - Wat Tyler
Pilgrimage of Grace 1536
Prayer Book Rebellion 1549
Gordon Riots 1780
Nineteenth Century -
Luddites - machine-breaking
Peterloo Massacre 1819
Strikes and riots in Scotland (Scottish Insurrection) 1820
Swing Riots 1830
Merthyr Rising 1831
Bristol Riots 1832
Tolpuddle Martyrs 1834
Rebecca Riots 1839-1843
Plug Plot Riots 1842
Chartism
Bloody Sunday 1887
Matchgirls' marches and strikes 1888
Dock strikes and marches 1889
Twentieth Century -
Suffragettes
Miners' Strike 1910-11
Red Clydeside/Battle of George Square etc 1919-20
General Strike 1926
Invergordon Mutiny 1931
Battle of Cable Street 1936 - anti-Fascist, anti-Mosley
Jarrow March
Aldermaston March 1959
Grosvenor Square Peace March 1968 - anti-Vietnam War
Northern Ireland
Greenham Common 1981
Miners' Strike 1984-5
Poll Tax
Twenty-First Century -
Stop the War - anti-Iraq War
Anti-lockdown protests
Black Lives Matter - anti-racism protests
Gaza War protests
Just Stop Oil
Extinction Rebellion
