[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.

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Loveless and five fellow workers – his brother James, James Hammett, James Brine, Thomas Standfield and Thomas’s son John – were charged with having taken an illegal oath. But their real crime in the eyes of the establishment was to have formed a trade union to protest about their meagre pay of six shillings a week – the equivalent of 30p (or roughly £50 when adjusted for inflation to today’s money) and the third wage cut in as many years.

The campaign for women’s suffrage is often characterised by its militant factions and leaders like Emmeline Pankhurst who used bombs and destruction of property to get their message across. That characterisation is accurate, but it’s not the whole story. In fact, militant suffrage actions didn’t begin with the Women’s Social and Political Union…or with women […]

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Black History Month offers an opportunity to highlight the significant but often overlooked contribution of black people throughout history. William Cuffey is one such example: a Chartist leader and son of a former slave, his relatively little-known yet remarkable story can be found in The National Archives’ collection. Cuffey (also written Cuffay and Cuffy) was […]