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Ball, Roger and Askew, Jane (2025) Intergroup dynamics within the 1831 reform riots: towards a new social psycho-history. UWE https://researchdata.uwe.ac.uk/id/eprint/757/
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This interdisciplinary project breaks new ground for historians in that it will be carried out using recent concepts and principles from social psychology, where social identity researchers have had success in explaining the limits of behaviour in rioting crowds; the role of authorities in the dynamics of such riots; and the process through which rioting spreads across different geographical locations. An overall survey of a wave of ~500 reform-related collective action events that occurred in Britain and Ireland after the rejection of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords in October 1831 was carried out in order to understand the dynamics of the spread of riots and to determine the locations of a series of detailed case studies.
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1831 reform riots, disturbances, bill, act, parliamentary | ||||
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| UWE College/School: | College of Arts, Technology and Environment > School of Art, Design, Culture and Media | ||||
| Creators: | Ball, Roger and Askew, Jane | ||||
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| URI: | https://researchdata.uwe.ac.uk/id/eprint/757 | ||||
| Data collection method: | The data was collected from two primary sources, national and local newspapers and Home Office correspondence over the period 1 October to 31 December 1831. When and where collective action events occurred was substantiated by cross-referencing the various sources. Precise locations of events for (mapping purposes) were determined by using Google maps. Close readings of the sources were used to derive the content of each collective action event which was then characterised by using a typological framework. | ||||
| Grant number: | ES/T00293X/1 | ||||
| Geographic coverage: | Britain and Ireland | ||||
| Resource language: | English | ||||
| Metadata language: | English | ||||
| Ethical Statement: | The data is taken from the period October-December 1831 so has no ethical issues. | ||||
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