- Paperback: 70 pages
- Publisher: Hexham Community Partnership (19 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954797604
- ISBN-13: 978-0954797607
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,148,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A detailed account,
By Junius (London, Middlesex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Riot: The Hexham Militia Riot,1761 (Paperback)
The Hexham Militia riot was the most deadly riot in eighteenth century Britain bar the Gordon riots of 1780, though is scarcely known about. This is a well researched and detailed account. The author uses illustrations and plans, and sets the scene well, with an introduction to both Hexham and the Militia Act of 1757.
A few quibbles over detail - there is a reference to 'reactionary' gentry in 1746, but surely 'Jacobite' would be a better term than the use of such a perjorative term? Marshal Wade's forces were not turned back at Hexham in 1745 due to the weather - which was foul - but because news came through that Carlisle, which they were on their way to relieve, had already fallen to the Jacobites - for details see a recent article in Archaeologia Aeliana. The author doesn't seem to have used the Newcastle MSS at the British Library to see, what, if any, was the response of the most important man in British politics at that time. Furthermore, Corfe could also have noted that Horace Walpole, the era's most significant letter writer, didn't even refer to it. Although the riot was important locally, it wasn't seen as being nationally important, and I think the author could have made more about this. But these are caveats to a book that is certainly worth reading to anyone interested in eighteenth century history, civil unrest and Northumberland.
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