Lisez et relisez très attentivement le texte de cadrage sur  « Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811-1914). » Consultez la bibliographie qui vous est fournie ci-dessous. Commencez à travailler sur les thématiques qui seront abordées  en début de cours (dès le mois de novembre) à savoir radicalisme, chartisme et vote des femmes, en lisant un ou deux ouvrages sur ces questions.

Lisez également très attentivement les rapports précédents pour bien comprendre la nature des épreuves et leurs codes.

1.    Reference works 

Breverton, Terry.  Wales: A Historical Companion. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley, 2009. 

Cook, Chris. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914. London: Routledge, 2005. 

Crowcroft, Robert and Cannon, John eds. The Oxford Companion to British History, 2^nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 

Hewitt, Martin ed. The Victorian World. London; New York: Routledge, 2012. 

Le Maitron. Dictionnaire biographique. Mouvement ouvrier. Mouvement social. « Grande-Bretagne et Irlande, 2007-2024 ». https://maitron.fr/spip.php?mot1259  

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison eds. 61 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. https://www.oxforddnb.com/  

Williams, Chris, ed. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain. Blackwell Companions to British History. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. 

 

2.    General volumes on the period 

Benson, John. The Working Class in Britain 1850-1939. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. 

Evans, Eric. The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire, 1780-1914. London: Routledge, 2013. 

Griffin, Emma. Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. 

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. 

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. 

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. 

Lee, Stephen J. Aspects of British Political History 1815-1914. London: Routledge, 1994. 

Matthew, Colin ed. The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles: 1815-1901. Short Oxford History of the British Isles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 

Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 

Royle, Edward and Walvin, James. English Radicals and Reformers 1760-1848. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982. 

Stedman Jones, Gareth and Claeys, Gregory eds. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 

Vernon, James. Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

 

3.    General works on radicalism and ‘history from below’ in the period 

Allen, Joan and Chase, Malcolm. “Britain: 1750-1900.” Allen, Joan, Campbell, Alan and McIlroy, John eds. Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives. Pontypool: Merlin, 2010, pp. 64-98. 

Belchem, John and Biggs, Bryan eds. Liverpool: City of Radicals. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. 

Belchem, John. Class, Party and the Political System in Britain, 1867-1914. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. 

Belchem, John. Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. 

Dinwiddy, J. R. Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780-1850. Rio Grande, Ohio: The Hambledon Press, 1992.  

Roberts, Matthew. Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 18091848. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.  

Royle, Edward. Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 

Taylor, Miles. The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847-1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 

* Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2^nd edn, 1968. 

Tilly, Charles. « Les origines du répertoire d’action collective en France et en Grande-Bretagne », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, n° 4, 1984, pp. 89-108 :  https://www.persee.fr/doc/xxs_0294-1759_1984_num_4_1_1719

Tilly, Charles. Social Movements 1768-2004. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Vallance, Edward. A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries. The Men and Women who Fought for our Freedoms. London: Little, Brown, 2009. 

 

4.    Radicalism, 1815-1832  (enseignante Myriam-Isabelle DUCROCQ)

Bamford, Samuel. Passages in the Life of a Radical. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. [French translation: Bamford, Samuel. La vie d’un radical anglais au temps de Peterloo. Paris, Éditions sociales, 2019. Traduction de Laurent Bury. Présenté et édité par Fabrice Bensimon, avec le concours de Robert 

Poole.] 

Chase, Malcolm. 1820. Disorder and Stability in the United Kingdom. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 

  

* Poole, Robert. Peterloo: The English Uprising. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 

Rogers, Rachel and Sippel, Alexandra eds. Années de crise. Le massacre de Peterloo en GrandeBretagne et dans le monde / Peterloo 1819 and After: Perspectives from Britain and Beyond.  Caliban 6566. Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2022. 

5.    Chartism  (enseignante Claire DELIGNY)

* Chase, Malcolm. Chartism: A New History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 [French translation by Laurent Bury: Le chartisme (1838-1858). Aux origines du mouvement ouvrier britannique. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013]. 

Roberts, Matthew. “Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero c.1770-

c.1840.” Labour History Review, Vol. 78, No. 1, 2013, pp. 3-32. 

Stedman Jones, Gareth. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working-Class History 1832-1982. 

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 (ch. 3 “Rethinking Chartism”). 

Thompson, Dorothy. The Chartists, Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. London: Temple Smith, 1984; New York: Pantheon, 1984. 

BBC Radio 4 series “British Socialism: the Grand Tour”. I would advise you to listen to the whole programme but you may want to start here as far as Chartism is concerned! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ry6jr

  BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time”: Chartism: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hx7n

 

6.    The women’s suffrage movement, 1850-1914  (enseignante Béatrice ROBIC)

Liddington, Jill and Norris, Jill. One hand tied behind us: the rise of the women’s suffrage movement, London, Rivers Oram, 2000 [1978]; French translation: Histoire des suffragistes radicales, translation by Laurent Bury. Paris: Éditions Libertalia, 2018.  

* Pugh, Martin. The March of the Women. A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage, 1866-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 

 

7.    Labour history and trade unionism (enseignant Thierry LABICA)

En cours de rédaction. 

8.    Socialism  (enseignante Laurence DUBOIS)

Bevir, Mark. The Making of British Socialism. Princeton (NJ); Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2011. 

Claeys, Gregory. “Non-Marxian Socialism 1815–1914.” Stedman Jones, Gareth and Claeys, Gregory eds. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 521-555. 

Cole, G. D. H. A History of Socialist Thought. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1953-60. 

Flaherty, Seamus. Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism: The Social and Political Thought of H.M. Hyndman, E.B. Bax and William Morris. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

Guy, Stéphane. Genèse du travaillisme. La philosophie de l’histoire des Fabiens. Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2019. 

* Harrison, J.F.C. Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America. The Quest for the New Moral World. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 

*Hinton, James. Labour and Socialism. A History of the British Labour Movement, 1867-1974. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1983. 

Kinna, Ruth. William Morris, The Art of Socialism. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. 

Laybourn, Keith. The Rise of Socialism in Britain c.1881-1951. Stroud: Sutton, 1997. 

Norman, E. R. The Victorian Christian Socialists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 

Siméon, Ophélie. “Utilitarianism and Socialism in the Nineteenth Century.” Revue d’études benthamiennes 23, 2023. 

Siméon, Ophélie. Contemporary Thought on 19th Century Socialism, vol. 1, “Owenite Socialism”, Routledge, 2021. 

Siméon, Ophélie. Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark. From Paternalism to Socialism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 

* Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. London: Virago, 1983. 

Van der Linden, Marcel, ed. The Cambridge History of Socialism. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. [including: Claeys, Gregory, ‘Robert Owen and Owenism’, pp. 146-166; Bensimon, Fabrice, ‘The International Working Men’s Association (1864-1876/7)’, pp. 223-260; Goodway, David, ‘Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United Kingdom’, pp. 444-465.] 

 

9.              Anti-slavery and anti-imperialism (enseignant Timothy GIBBS)

Béliard, Yann. “Le mouvement ouvrier britannique et l’Empire (1815-1931) : ennemi intérieur ou loyal serviteur ?” Aprile, Sylvie et Rapoport, Michel dir. Le monde britannique 1815-(1914)-1931. Neuilly-surSeine : Atlande, 2010, pp. 316-357. 

Drescher, Seymour. “The Shocking Birth of British Abolitionism.” Slavery & Abolition, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2012, pp. 571-593.  

Gopal, Priyamvada. Insurgent Empire. Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent. London: Verso, 2020. 

Hall, Catherine. and Rose, Sonya eds. At Home with the Empire. Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

Hanley, Ryan. “Slavery and the Birth of Working-Class Racism in England, 1814-1833.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 26, 2016, pp. 103-123. 

Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870. London: Routledge, 1992. 

Owen, Nicholas. The British Left and India: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885-1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 

Page, Anthony. “Rational Dissent, Enlightenment, and Abolition of the British Slave Trade.” The Historical Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2011, pp. 741-772.

Scanlan, Padraic. Freedom’s Debtors British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. 

Taylor, Miles. “Imperium et Libertas? Rethinking the radical critique of imperialism during the nineteenth century”. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1991, pp. 1-23.  

 

10.           Films 

Feature Films 

Comrades (Bill Douglas, 1987) 

The Mill (James Hawes, TV series 2013-2014) 

Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018) 

Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, 2015) 

Enola Holmes 2 (Harry Bradbeer, 2022) 

 

Documentaries 

Les suffragettes. Ni paillassons, ni prostituées (Michèle Dominici, 2012) 

Shoulder to Shoulder (Midge Mackenzie, BBC, 1974)