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Undergraduate Course: Collective Action and Protest in Britain, c.1760-1848 (HIST10196)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaHistory Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course analyses the motivations and momentum that inspired all kinds of collective action and protest in Britain, 1760-1848. We consider the politics of the crowd in food riots, extra-parliamentary pressure, strikes, and religious and political riots during this period of turbulent political and socio-economic change. The course highlights ?flashpoints= of socio-political conflict, including: the Wilkes trial, Gordon riots, anti-Jacobin mobs, the radical mass platform, and Chartism. The course also surveys wider patterns of collective action over the whole of the period. We look at early trade unionism and working-class collective action, offering a more cultural approach to the traditional histories of this topic. Female protest and radicalism is also addressed. The course encourages the use of inter-disciplinary approaches, particularly cultural geography and historical sociology. We investigate the politics of activists in relation to the crowd, and how socio-political movements emerge and dissolve. We discuss the contested theories of social movements, the use of space in popular protest and the cultural ?narrative= of banners and imaginary leaders.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Directors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503783).
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should usually have at least 3 History courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses.
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This course develops students? abilities to apply theoretical models to empirical evidence. It will enhance their knowledge of the history of social movements and popular protest in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and their critical thinking about the causes and outcomes of various historiographical debates. The course encourages students to take an interdisciplinary approach, introducing them to recent methodologies of historical sociology and cultural geography. It will thereby extend their flexibility to think conceptually outside the traditional historical framework of this period and topics. It offers wide opportunities for online learning and research from digitised archives.
Assessment Information
One essay of about 3000 words (one third of overall assessment); one two-hour examination paper (two-thirds of overall assessment).
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
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KeywordsCollective Action
Contacts
Course organiser Course secretaryMrs Caroline Cullen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3781
Email: caroline.cullen@ed.ac.uk
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