It's an amazing story, and just one example of the more than one hundred food riots recorded across England and Wales in 1766. Thankfully it was rare for the authorities to kill food rioters, though at least 8 were hanged over the course of the year.
Great pamphlet on the Nottingham Cheese Riot from the local radical history collective People's Histreh: peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...#History#RadicalHistory
Now picturing a very smug looking Milton scrolling through the amazon reviews.
It's publication day! Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...#histSTM#earlymod
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…
You should post it too! An profile with an empty feed always makes me a bit sad.
Campop blog #14: How dangerous was childbirth in historic Britain? Considerably higher than today, but never the most common cause of mortality among adult women @camunicampop.bsky.social#demography#skystorianswww.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09...
It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600', open access in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A ringing endorsement from a nice-looking truckle of cheese! That's the sort of advertising you can't buy.
Plebeian politics, physical disability and the world turned upside down in 18th-century mock elections. Alasdair McNeill, doctoral student at @bbkhistorical.bsky.socialhowtohistory.substack.com/p/the-garrat...
