By David Horspool
The English have a wealthy and wonderful historical past of creating difficulty for themselves. 100 and 40 years earlier than the French Revolution, the English performed their king and instituted a thorough progressive govt. In 1215, greater than 570 years earlier than the U.S. ratified its invoice of Rights, England's barons compelled King John to just accept the Magna Carta. In 1926 over 1.5 million strikers introduced the kingdom to its knees.
From the Peasants' rebel to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell to Arthur Scargill, this ground-breaking and highly stress-free booklet describes a wealthy and non-stop culture of resistance, uprising and radicalism, of violent and charismatic people with axes to grind, and of social eruptions and political earthquakes that experience formed England's entire tradition and character.
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William set the area around Southwark, south of the river, alight, and withdrew. Then, taking a slow, relentless approach that became characteristic of his dealings with his uncooperative new subjects, he embarked on a steady encirclement of London, isolating his enemies, and leaving them with no option but to give up. The first to cave in was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stigand, who approached William at Wallingford to swear fealty. William’s advance continued, along the Chilterns, and soon afterwards the remaining English resistance knew the game was up, for the time being, at least.
The disturbance at Exeter turned out to be the prelude to a more widespread challenge to William’s authority throughout 1068 and beyond. Edwin and Morcar were next to turn defiant. Edwin had reportedly been given authority over ‘his brother and almost a third of England’, but he had also been promised a marriage to William’s daughter, which did not materialize. Perhaps William was toying with the idea of forming an Anglo-Norman senior aristocracy by intermarriage. If so, it was a notion he didn’t pursue.
The result is it’s easy to think of most (failed) rebellions as insignificant, mere interruptions to the steady flow of the mainstream. Of course, that assumes that we know where the mainstream is going, and that rebels haven’t caused an interruption or diversion, however imperceptible at the time. Concentrating on rebels, the ways they tried to interfere with the flow, is a useful corrective to reading the present back into the past, one result of the tendency known as the ‘Whig Interpretation’ of history.