Royal Historical Society lecture: ‘The contested right of public meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts’

On 5 February 2021, I was honoured to give a lecture to the Royal Historical Society, on the history of the right of public meeting. It has been recorded and will be posted on their website soon. https://royalhistsoc.org/events/

We're live with with our first public lecture for 2021!

Dr Katrina Navickas asking timely questions about who has authority to hold a public meeting…

‘The Contested Right of Public Meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts’ pic.twitter.com/bd0Kf4yYWB
— Royal Historical Society (@RoyalHistSoc) February 5, 2021

Watching – and very much enjoying – @katrinanavickas lecture on public meetings for @RoyalHistSoc #academiccats pic.twitter.com/jonpB1m4Ng
— Marianna Dudley (@DudleyMarianna) February 5, 2021

Ironically the lecture came the day after a video of Handforth Parish Council went viral on Twitter and other social media. My choice of Isaac Cruikshank’s 1828 cartoon of a select vestry meeting being interrupted seemed especially relevant:

My big lecture this evening revisits the Foucauldian model of liberal governmentality, asking whether it fully replaced customary forms of local governance in planning.

I have now replaced all my carefully collated historical evidence with the video of Handforth parish council
— Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 (@katrinanavickas) February 5, 2021

"To what extent does Jackie Weaver have all the authority?"
Discuss, with reference to Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and James C Scott's Weapons of the Weak. (100 pts, you have 1 hour).
— Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 (@katrinanavickas) February 5, 2021

https://twitter.com/katrinanavickas/status/1357611250390343682?s=20

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