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SUMMARY:The People\, the State\, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Ear
 ly Modern England - Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck)
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CONTACT:Martin Andersson
DESCRIPTION:The county and city magistrates of early modern England receiv
 ed numerous ‘petitions’ every year from local communities and individu
 als. These requests and complaints often focused on responsibility for poo
 r relief and other ‘public’ social and economic issues\, drawing on a 
 rhetoric of justice and statutory rights for legitimacy. This paper examin
 es a large corpus of these local petitions to better understand how ‘the
  will of the people’ shaped governance on the ground.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 5
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