Keynote slides: Practical Politics and Place in the 19th century
new towns reading list
right to stand on the pavement
New Lives New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain
select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
rhododendrons
BBC Radio 4 Analysis, ‘what’s the point of street protest?’
East London primary sources
The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
MERL OSS lantern slide exhibition now online
when is a square not a square

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/

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:

https://twitter.com/katrinanavickas/status/1357609551974043648?s=20
https://twitter.com/katrinanavickas/status/1357610173095936001?s=20
https://twitter.com/katrinanavickas/status/1357611250390343682?s=20

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