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Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain from the Peasants' Revolt to Extinction Rebellion

Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain from the Peasants' Revolt to Extinction Rebellion

Rennison, Nick

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General World HistoryBritish History

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 0857306197
ISBN13: 9780857306197
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 210
Language: English

The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers.

Riots and Rebels is an examination of how people have exercised that power in England, Scotland and Wales over the centuries and how governments have reacted to it.

In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land enclosure, and riots targeting religious groups and foreigners regularly occurred. In the following century, mass gatherings demanded reform of the electoral system which allowed only a tiny proportion of the population to vote. In the early twentieth century, suffragettes chained themselves to railings, took part in huge demonstrations and endured prison sentences in pursuit of the vote for women. Recent decades have seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets of London and other cities to protest against the Iraq War and, more recently, the war in Gaza.

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