Scenes from Common Life
V.G. Kiernan, 1 November 1984
A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914
edited by Christopher Hampton.
Penguin, 624 pp., £7.95, January 1984,0 14 022444 0 Show More
edited by Christopher Hampton.
Penguin, 624 pp., £7.95, January 1984,
Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810
by John Bohstedt.
Harvard, 310 pp., £12.50, November 1983,0 674 77120 6 Show More
by John Bohstedt.
Harvard, 310 pp., £12.50, November 1983,
The World We have Lost – Further Explored
by Peter Laslett.
Methuen, 353 pp., £12.95, December 1983,0 416 35340 1 Show More
by Peter Laslett.
Methuen, 353 pp., £12.95, December 1983,
“... of years, when the people’s most elemental needs were in jeopardy, is minutely investigated by John Bohstedt. His method has been to scrutinise ‘an objective sample’ of the more than a thousand riots that broke out during 1790-1810, in order to discover how and why they occurred. They were too commonplace to be unduly upsetting, and it was rarely ... ”
