Petitions and Petitioning in Historical Perspective
(2024)
Book Chapter
Huzzey, R., Janse, M., Miller, H., Oddens, J., & Waddell, B. (2024). Petitions and Petitioning in Historical Perspective. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. OUP for the British Academy
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Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present (2024)
Book
Huzzey, R., Janse, M., Miller, H., Oddens, J., & Waddell, B. (in press). Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford: British AcademyThroughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power. Consol... Read More about Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present.
The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000 (2023)
Book Chapter
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (in press). The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. British Academy
A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (2023)
Book
Miller, H. (2023). A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918. Cambridge University Press
Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918 (2022)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2022). Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918. Journal of British Studies, 61(2), 261-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.185Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This paper assesses the signi... Read More about Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918.
Signatures of Conservatism: Petitioning, Popular Politics and Campaigns against Reform in Britain, 1780-1918 (2021)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2021). Signatures of Conservatism: Petitioning, Popular Politics and Campaigns against Reform in Britain, 1780-1918. Historia y Política, 46, 149-174. https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.46.06Accounts of mass petitioning in Britain, and indeed other nineteenth-century polities have generally focused on the deployment of petitions within progressive, reformist or liberal campaigns and social movements. In the British case, classic examples... Read More about Signatures of Conservatism: Petitioning, Popular Politics and Campaigns against Reform in Britain, 1780-1918.
The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (2021)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2021). The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918. History, 106(370), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.13103Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their... Read More about The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918.
The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914 (2020)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2021). The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914. Historical Journal, 64(2), 332-356. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000035Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the place of petitioning within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British political culture. While critical of their Victorian predecessors’ reliance on petit... Read More about The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914.
Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918 (2020)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2020). Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 248(1), 123-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz061This article analyses nearly one million petitions received by the House of Commons to reveal a culture of petitioning that recast the political culture of modern Britain and Ireland. It argues, first, that petitions provided a much more regular and... Read More about Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918.
Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914) (2019)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2019). Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Social Science History, 43(3), 409-429. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2019.24This introductory essay, firstly, offers a comparative, historical perspective on the transformation of petitioning into a vehicle for mass popular politics across North America and Western Europe during the “long” nineteenth century (1780–1914). Whi... Read More about Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914).
Petitioning and Demonstrating (2018)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. (2018). Petitioning and Demonstrating. In D. Brown, R. Crowcroft, & G. Pentland (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 (452-468). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198714897.013.14Despite being the most popular and accessible form of political activity among ordinary people, petitioning has received remarkably little attention from modern British historians. This chapter focuses on what gains in understanding such attention mi... Read More about Petitioning and Demonstrating.
Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!: Petitioning and the Organization of Public Opinion in Britain, c. 1780-1850 (2017)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. (2017). Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!: Petitioning and the Organization of Public Opinion in Britain, c. 1780-1850. In H. te Velde, & M. Janse (Eds.), Organizing Democracy: Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century (43-61). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50020-1_3This chapter explores petitioning as a form of political organization in Britain in the 1800–1850. After providing an overview of the huge surge in petitioning in the early nineteenth century, the advantages of petitioning are examined. Unlike other... Read More about Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!: Petitioning and the Organization of Public Opinion in Britain, c. 1780-1850.
Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England (2017)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2017). Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Cultural and Social History, 14(1), 35-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1290968This article highlights the potency of traditional popular print culture as a form of political communication for one of the pioneering campaigns of the nineteenth century: the free trade agitation of the 1840s. Contributing to recent debates about V... Read More about Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England.
Earl Grey (2015)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. (2015). Earl Grey. In D. Brack, R. Ingham, & T. Little (Eds.), British Liberal leaders: leaders of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats since 1828 (81-92). Biteback Publishing
Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80. (2015)
Book
Miller, H. (2015). Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80. Manchester University PressThe remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of com... Read More about Politics personified: Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80..
‘Radicals, Tories or Monomaniacs? The Birmingham Currency Reformers in the House of Commons, 1832–67.’ (2012)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2012). ‘Radicals, Tories or Monomaniacs? The Birmingham Currency Reformers in the House of Commons, 1832–67.’. Parliamentary History, 31(3), 354-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00347.xBenjamin Disraeli described Thomas Attwood as a ‘provincial banker labouring under a financial monomania’. The leader of the Birmingham Political Union, Attwood's Warwickshire accent and support for a paper currency were widely derided at Westminster... Read More about ‘Radicals, Tories or Monomaniacs? The Birmingham Currency Reformers in the House of Commons, 1832–67.’.
‘Popular Petitioning and the Corn Laws, 1833–46’ (2012)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2012). ‘Popular Petitioning and the Corn Laws, 1833–46’. The English Historical Review, 127(527), 882-919. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ces073
‘John Leech and the Shaping of the Victorian Cartoon: The Context of Respectability’ (2009)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2009). ‘John Leech and the Shaping of the Victorian Cartoon: The Context of Respectability’. Victorian Periodicals Review, 42(3), 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.0.0087The Punch artist John Leech was an influential and popular figure in Victorian culture. This article uses Leech to explore the wider context in which cartoons and illustrators operated and presents a nuanced view of the pressures favouring respectabi... Read More about ‘John Leech and the Shaping of the Victorian Cartoon: The Context of Respectability’.
‘The Problem with Punch’ (2008)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2009). ‘The Problem with Punch’. Historical Research, 82(216), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00457.xThe comic periodical Punch is a popular source with academics working on the Victorian period and it has often been regarded as a ‘national institution’. This article takes a more nuanced view, arguing that Punch was primarily aimed at a metropolitan... Read More about ‘The Problem with Punch’.