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Politics of Sedition in Long Nineteenth-Century Britain

Gender, Activism, Spatial Politics and Legality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The Politics of Sedition in Long Nineteenth-Century Britain: Gender, Activism, Spatial Politics and Legality examines the political confrontation between the British state and the emerging working class, a struggle that manifested in collective activism and was met with severe state repression, from imprisonment to loss of life.This interdisciplinary collection explores sedition through themes of political activism, emotions, gender, communication, space, and legality, drawing on methodologies from history, literature, law, and archaeology. Contributors grapple with the ill-defined legal concept of sedition, which blurred the boundaries between blasphemy, treason, and insurgency, leaving activists unable to operate within the law. Examining actions once deemed seditious but which ultimately advanced participatory democracy, the collection also reflects on the contemporary relevance of sedition in twenty-first-century confrontations between state power and popular resistance.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-28
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWarwick Series in the Humanities
Antal sidor292
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032897899

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Dave Steele is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, where he completed his PhD on The Reputational Power of English Reform Crowds 1816–1848. His research argues that reform crowds were significantly smaller than previously thought yet paradoxically successful in projecting power, provoking disproportionate state responses. He has spoken at the Tolpuddle Radical History School and the Kennington Chartist Project. Publications include 'The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48', Parliamentary History 45 (2026); 'Peaceably if we may' in Resist: Stories of Uprising (Comma Press, 2019); and 'People's Vote march: when it comes to crowds, history shows it's not all about size', The Conversation (March 2019).

1 Prolegomena: Free-born British People - Dave Steele; 2 'Five shillings per day': the 1819 Yorkshire Miners' Strike - Joe Stanley; 3 Radical Landscapes and Seditious Spaces: Contested Meanings in Early Nineteenth Century Radical Events - Caitlin Kitchener; 4 The Irrational Repressive State: Surveillance, Infiltration and Legislation - Dave Steele; 5 'What business do you have in this house? Reform!': Electoral Violence, National Politics and Local Spaces in Rural England, c. 1820-1892 - Leonard Baker; 6 Fifty Years of Female Sedition and Blasphemy: 1816-1866 - Judy Cox; 7 'Law-Breaking Justified': Women and Challenges to the State in the Early Nineteenth Century - Sarah Richardson; 8 'Firmness, but wisdom: union, but peace!': Chartism, Radicalism and Sedition in Nottingham, 1848 - Aaron Ackerley; 9 The Revival of the Elizabethan Act against Seditious Words and Rumours against the Chartists - Stephen Basdeo; 10 G. W. M. Reynolds and the Seditious Threat: Sublimating Emotions in Chartist Fiction - Lourdes Salgado; 11 The Newspapers of Edward Lloyd - Joy Vick; 12 'Teaching by the eye those who do not or cannot hear the spoken truths': Mapping the Public Display of Suffrage Posters in Women's Fight for the Vote, 1910-1914 - Tara Morton; 13 Afterword: Chartists and Charlatans - Tim Malloch