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(a) Primary
J.B. Goodman, ed., Victorian Cabinet Maker: the Memoirs
of James Hopkinson, 1819-94 (1968)
John Hicklin, Report of the Proceedings against the parties
charged with burning Nottingham Castle,
Firing Lowe’s Mill, and Sacking Colwick Hall (1832)
R.A. Gaunt, ed., Unhappy Reactionary: the Diaries of the
fourth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne 1822-50 (Thoroton
Society Record Series, 43, 2003)
NUM resource pack on working class unrest - contains some good copies
of resources useful for younger researchers
(b) Secondary
Nottingham’s early reputation as a riotous town is considered in R.A.E.
Wells, Riot and Political Disaffection in Nottinghamshire in the Age
of Revolutions, 1776-1803 (1983)
For the Luddites, see M. Thomis, The Luddites (1970); B. Bailey, The
Luddite Rebellion (1998); and Christopher Weir, As Poor as
a Stockinger (1998)
On the Pentrich Rebellion, see M. Thomis, ‘The Nottingham Captain: a
portrait of Jeremiah Brandreth, the rebel’, Nottinghamshire Historian,
14 (1974).
The most recent writing on the 1831 Reform riots is John Beckett, ‘The
Nottingham Reform Bill Riots of 1831’. This will be published in a journal
called Parliamentary History, but as that is not widely available,
copies will be deposited in Nottinghamshire Local Studies Library
and at Nottinghamshire Archives. See also R.A. Gaunt, ‘Neighbours from
Hell? The Fourth Duke of Newcastle and the People of Nottingham in the
Early
Nineteenth Century’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 104
(2000), 99-112
The best recent summaries of Chartism are P. Wyncoll, Nottingham
Chartism (1966); James Epstein, ‘Some organisational and cultural
aspects of the Chartist movement in Nottingham’, in J. Epstein and
D. Thompson, eds., The Chartist Experience (1982); and Che Binder, ‘The
Nottingham electorate and the Election of the Chartist, Feargus O’Connor,
1847’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 107 (2003), 145-62
On the rise of the Labour movement see P. Wyncoll, The Nottingham
Labour Movement 1880-1939 (1985); Robert Bell, ‘Late Starter?:
The Rise of the Labour Party in Nottingham, 1890-1939’, Transactions
of the Thoroton Society, 104 (2000), 125-34; Nick Hayes, ‘The government
of the city, 1900-1974: the consensus ethos in local politics’, in
Beckett, ed., Centenary History, chapter 19.
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