London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II

[...]the need to satisfy examiners usually ensures that the authors attempt to think things through and more particularly that they treat their evidence and interpretative concepts with proper scepticism, procedures that established historians sometimes too easily forget. Popular reaction to the Res...

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Published inBunyan studies Vol. 2; no. 1; p. 86
Main Author Hayton, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.04.1990
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English literature
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Summary:[...]the need to satisfy examiners usually ensures that the authors attempt to think things through and more particularly that they treat their evidence and interpretative concepts with proper scepticism, procedures that established historians sometimes too easily forget. Popular reaction to the Restoration forms an interesting prologue to Harris's story, and there are two other outbursts of mob violence that merit consideration - the Bawdy House riots of 1668 and the Weavers' Riot of 1675 - though to fit these episodes into the thematic structure of the book is not easy, since their causes and rationale were rather more social and economic than overtly political. [...]Harris is obliged to widen the scope of his investigations beyond the London crowds, to look at the respective propaganda campaigns of Whigs and Tories and the ways in which each party sought to appeal to a popular authence, and to discuss the more orthodox popular participation in the political life of London, at electoral, corporation and parish level.
ISSN:0954-0970