Undergraduate Course: Collective Action and Protest in Britain, c.1760-1848 (HIST10196)
Course Outline
School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This 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. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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). |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | Visiting 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. |
Course Delivery Information
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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.
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Additional Information
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Keywords | Collective Action |
Contacts
Course organiser | |
Course secretary | Mrs Caroline Cullen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3781
Email: caroline.cullen@ed.ac.uk |
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