This seminar focuses on the Regency (and the prior Regency crisis) and the political environment including representations of the monarchy and popular politics including Luddism and Peterloo.

Reading

• J Belchem, ‘Republicanism, popular constitutionalism and the radical platform in early nineteenth century England’, Social History, 1981

• A Clark, ‘Queen Caroline and the sexual politics of popular culture in London, 1820’, Representations, 1990

• J Derry, The Regency Crisis
• James Epstein, ‘Understanding the Cap of Liberty: Symbolic practice and social conflict in early 19^th century England’, Past and Present, 1989
• Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People
• Macolm Kelsall, 'Byron's Politics' in Drummond Bone, Cambridge Companion to Byron
• Iain McCalman, Radical Underworld
• Iain McCalman (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
• Katrina Navickas, 'The Search for General Ludd', Social History, 2005

Sources

Nineteenth-century newspapers and British Museum Prints and Drawings database for representations of regency politics.

• Lord Byron on the Framework Bill (Hansard)
• Accounts of Peterloo
• Samuel Bamford on Peterloo