Rogers, Rachel (1978-.... ; angliciste)
Rachel Rogers enseigne dans le Département d'Études du monde anglophone (DEMA) à l’Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. Ses recherches portent sur les mouvements de contestation au tournant du XIXe siècle et sur la participation politique des gens ordinaires. Son livre sur la population britannique à Paris à l’époque de la Révolution française est paru en 2021. Elle travaille actuellement sur les femmes dans des mouvements populaires entre 1780 et 1820 (en 2024)
Podcasts
The Peterloo massacre, 1819 – Reading the Riot Act #4
Specialist of Lancashire radical culture in the early 19th century, Robert Poole provides context to and explanation of the events that took place in Manchester on 16th August 1819. Eighteen people
19th-century protest movements through the prism of ‘radicalism’
Dans le cadre de la Journée d’Études "Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives".
The Newport Rising, 1839 / Reading the Riot Act #3
I talk to Matthew Roberts, a historian of Chartism at Sheffield Hallam University, about the Chartist rising which took place in Newport, South Wales, in November 1839, just after Parliament had
The Luddite protests, 1811-12 / Reading the Riot Act #2
In this episode, the focus is on the ‘Luddite’ movement of 1811-12 when machine-breaking actions proliferated in the English cloth-making counties of Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and
The Gordon Riots, 1780 / Reading the Riot Act #1
This episode looks in depth at the Gordon riots which took place in London in June 1780. What has often been seen as an anti-Catholic protest, occurring when Britain was fighting to retain its prized