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Trends and new departures in the historiography of British protest movements (1811-1914)

Par Rachel Rogers : Maîtresse de Conférences - Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (CAS EA 801)
Publié par Marion Coste le 30/01/2025

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[Conférence] Rachel Rogers outlines in this talk the beginnings of the "new social history", a field of history which came to prominence after the Second World War and endeavoured to bring the actions of men and women within social and political movements to light. She then provides an overview of the main trends in the historiography of protest studies, and concludes by presenting some of the approaches which historians have adopted in the last two decades.

This talk was organised by Frédéric Hermann and Françoise Orazi (Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR 5206 Triangle).

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Introduction 00:00
  • What is a movement?
 01:34
  • Outline of the talk
 06:50

1. The groundwork of the social history of protest

  • 1811-1914: a period of flux
 08:17
  • High watermarks of protest?
 10:42
  • Whig history
 12:43
  • Late 19th century, early 20th century: liberal social history
 13:51
  • New social history
 17:08
  • "History from below"
 18:16

2. Trends in protest studies since the 1970s

  • 1970s and 1980s: women's history and feminism
 19:44
  • The Britishness of protest?
 24:19
  • 1980s and 1990s: the "linguistic turn"
 26:40
  • Back to class?
 30:41

3. New departures and current challenges

  • The limits of "ego-documents"
 32:23
  • Children in activism
 35:15
  • Commemorations
 38:05
  • Place, space, migration and ecologies of protest
 41:08
  • Tensions and intersections
 42:02
  • Biography from below
 43:10
  • Race and empire
 45:08
Conclusion: History from below today? 48:16

 

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Further reading

Bensimon, Fabrice and Rogers, Rachel (eds). 2025. "Protest Movements in Britain, 1811-1914: Historiography and Debates", Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, volume 30, n°1, URL: https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/12898

---. 2024. Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811-1914). Paris: Atlande.

 

Pour citer cette ressource :

Rachel Rogers, Trends and new departures in the historiography of British protest movements (1811-1914), La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), janvier 2025. Consulté le 31/01/2025. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/civilisation/domaine-britannique/trends-and-new-departures-in-the-historiography-of-british-protest-movements-1811-1914

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