{"id":2396,"date":"2012-05-15T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=2396"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:36:50","slug":"radical-history-the-commonweal","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/radical-history-the-commonweal\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical History &#038; \u2018The Commonweal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why History Matters&#8230; And Why Radical History Matters More &#8211; David Cullum<\/h2>\n<p>An analysis of the nature and importance of radical history in the public domain.<\/p>\n<h2>Commonalty and Commonweal 1381-1649<strong> &#8211;<\/strong> David Rollison<\/h2>\n<p>Beginning with the story of a heretical hermit who, in 1357, was accused of terrorizing the respectable rich peasants of Hertfordshire and the king\u2019s Justices by rousing the labourers of the county and preaching that the Statute of Labourers was \u2018blasphemy\u2019, this paper is a discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Longue_dur%C3%A9e\">longue\u00a0dur\u00e9e<\/a> of the labour movement in the light of recent work by social historians of late medieval and early modern England.\u00a0 It will include discussions of the keywords \u2018commonalty\u2019 and \u2018commonweal\u2019, of the argument that the popular rebellions of 1381, 1450, 1536 and 1549, and the \u2018great rebellion\u2019 of the sixteen-forties, belong to a single, continuously remembered and reinvented movement of the \u2018commonalty\u2019, of the original use of the term \u2018proletarian\u2019 to refer to the class of landless workers, of the role and meanings of class in English society from 1381 to 1649, and of the continuing relevance and limitations of Karl Marx\u2019s accounts of the origins of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to this talk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave Culum<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2396-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/cullum.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/cullum.mp3\">https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/cullum.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Dave Rollinson<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2396-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/rollason.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/rollason.mp3\">https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/rollason.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<ul class=\"q-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/cullum.mp3\">Download Dave Cullum&#8217;s talk (12 Mb mp3 file)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/audio\/heads2008\/rollason.mp3\">Download Dave Rollinson (15 Mn mp3 file)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"thumb-row\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wat_tyler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-2_or_3_across wp-image-2398\" title=\"Richard II watches Wat Tyler's death and addresses the peasants in the background: taken from the Gruuthuse manuscript of Froissart's Chroniques (c. 1475). Wat Tyler was the leader of the English Peasants revolt, 1381. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wat_tyler-270x200.jpg\" alt=\"Richard II watches Wat Tyler's death and addresses the peasants in the background: taken from the Gruuthuse manuscript of Froissart's Chroniques (c. 1475). Wat Tyler was the leader of the English Peasants revolt, 1381. \" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard II watches Wat Tyler&#8217;s death and addresses the peasants in the background: taken from the Gruuthuse manuscript of Froissart&#8217;s Chroniques (c. 1475). Wat Tyler was the leader of the English Peasants revolt, 1381.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2397\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/prayer_book_riot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-2_or_3_across wp-image-2397\" title=\"The start of the 'Great Rebellion'. Rioting at a church service in Scotland after the angry reaction from Jenny Geddes to use of the Anglican service in St Giles Cathedral in 1637.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/prayer_book_riot-270x200.jpg\" alt=\"The start of the 'Great Rebellion'. 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