Feb 10 Class society, class conflict
Introduction
-the unreformed parliament
I. postwar hardship
Corn Law of 1815
Luddites and mobs
Corporation of London's petition to the Prince Regent
emergence of radical clubs (Hamden Clubs)
William Cobbett and the Political Register
II. "static conservatism"
the Whig party
Tory conservatism under Lord Liverpool (PM, 1812-1827)
Coercion Acts of 1817
the Blanketeers
"Peterloo" (August 1819)
the Six Acts
The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home, George Cruikshank c. 1819
Text reads: "Down with 'em! Chop em down my brave boys: give them no quarter they want to take our Beef & Pudding from us! ---- & remember the more you kill the less poor rates you'll have to pay so go at it Lads show your courage & your Loyalty"
Shelley, "A Sonnet: England in 1819"
III. the emergence of class society