The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law, and England's millenarian rising.  Fought in a corner of rural Kent, it was also the last rising of the agricultural laborers.  In this comprehensive analysis, Reay draws on intensive research in local archives to provide a critical study of the background of the rising and its social context.  He presents a unique casestudy of popular mobilization in nineteenth-century England, producing a vivid portrait of the daily existence of the farm laborer and life in the village.  Exploring the wider context of agrarian relations, rural reform, protest, and control, this study will be of special interest to students and scholars of modern British history and social, agrarian, and local historians.

The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England

History

Reay, Barry

World

Oxford University Press

Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth-Century

Rural Englands is the first general history of nineteenth-century English rural workers. Barry Reay provides a fresh perspective on England's rural past, reintroducing those often excluded from more traditional historical approaches, and stressing the diversity of working communities and the dynamism of rural life. Reay challenges stereotypes of country living, arguing that the extent of localization is so compelling that, instead of thinking of a unitary notion of 'rural England', we must think in terms of 'rural Englands'.Incorporating a wide range of source material, Reay examines and explores both representations and experiences of rural labour, including:- varieties of settlement and landscape- types of work carried out by men, women and children- household survival strategies- experiences of life and death- leisure patterns- repertoires of protest- visual imagery- literary representations.

Europe

Red Globe Press

This is the first ever general history of nineteenth-century English rural workers. Reay provides a fresh perspective on England's rural past, reintroducing those often excluded from more traditional historical approaches, and stressing the diversity of working communities and the dynamism of rural life. Reay challenges stereotypes of rural England, arguing that the extent of localization is so compelling that it forces a rethinking of a unitary "rural England."

Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century England

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800–1930 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 30)

This book uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern Western world. Drawing on a wide range of research techniques, including family reconstitution and oral history, Barry Reay examines topics such as marriage and fertility, health and mortality, the work of women and children, and illegitimacy and sexuality. This book is an exciting example of the "new rural history", and will be of interest to rural and family historians, as well as demographers and sociologists.

Cambridge University Press

This book uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern Western world. Drawing on a wide range of research techniques, including family reconstitution and oral history, Barry Reay examines topics such as marriage and fertility, health and mortality, the work of women and children, and illegitimacy and sexuality. This book is an exciting example of the "new rural history", and will be of interest to rural and family historians, as well as demographers and sociologists.

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 (Themes In British Social History)

Longman

Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.

Routledge

New York hustlers: Masculinity and sex in modern America (Encounters: Cultural Histories)

This important new book, which focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as ‘trade’ – ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex – and hustlers – those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of twentieth-century American men and also influenced American literary and visual culture; the ‘trade aesthetic’ informed the work of a variety of artists, filmmakers, and writers. This sexual culture, though compelling in itself, also allows us to explore some key aspects of modern sexual history. This pioneering work, which draws on a wide range of visual and literary sources, including previously unpublished material from the Kinsey archives, will appeal to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in the histories of sex, the city, masculinity, and American culture.

Americas

Manchester University Press

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The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England

Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth-Century

Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth-Century

Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century England

Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800–1930 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 30)

Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800–1930 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 30)

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 (Themes In British Social History)

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 (Themes In British Social History)

New York hustlers: Masculinity and sex in modern America (Encounters: Cultural Histories)

New York hustlers: Masculinity and sex in modern America (Encounters: Cultural Histories)