Southern History, Vol. 32 (2010)

Captain Swing Reconsidered: Forty Years of Rural History from Below.

Steve Poole, Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians

Carl J. Griffin, ‘The mystery of the fires’: ‘Captain Swing’ as incendiarist

Adrian Randall, ‘The Luddism of the poor’: Captain Swing, Machine breaking and popular protest

Daniel J. Myers and Jamie L. Przybysz, The diffusion of contentious gatherings in the Captain Swing uprising

Iain Robertson, ‘Two steps forward: six steps back’: the dissipated legacy of Captain Swing

Judith Hill, The immediate reaction to the Swing riots in Surrey, 1832-1834

Peter Jones, The true life and history of Captain Swing. Rhetorical construction and metonymy in a time of reform

Alun Howkins, ‘The Owslebury Lads’

Margaret Escott, Tumult, riot and disturbance: perspectives on central and local government’s roles in the management of the 1830 ‘Captain Swing Riots’ in Berkshire and adjoining districts

Rose Wallis, ‘We do not come here… to inquire into grievance; we come here to decide law’: prosecuting Swing in Norfolk and Somerset, 1829-1832