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SUMMARY:Parochial Activism and the Clubmen of 1645: Anglo-Welsh responses 
 to conflict during the First English Civil War  - Tim Gray\, Jesus College
  
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DESCRIPTION:During 1645\, at the height of the First Civil War\, a series 
 of regional uprisings occurred in the counties of western England and sout
 h Wales. These mass mobilizations were collectively identified as ‘Club-
 men’ by contemporary observers. The Clubmen insurrections were recognise
 d as a reaction to the real and perceived depredations inflicted by both R
 oyalist and Parliamentarian forces. Regional groupings of Clubmen represen
 ted themselves as collections of associated parishes\, responding to the a
 ctivities of regular military forces. The Clubmen associations of Devon\, 
 Dorset\, Glamorgan\, Herefordshire\, Gloucestershire\, Monmouthshire\, Som
 erset\, Wiltshire and Worcestershire represented a broad spectrum of conte
 mporary political activism. In addition to acting as irregular defensive m
 ilitias\, individual associations issued autonomous petitions and articles
  of association which contained a diverse range of administrative\, religi
 ous and political demands. \n\nThe diversity of these programmes has long 
 been acknowledged in the works of Hutton\, Morrill\, Stoyle and Underdown.
  Despite this\, there is a risk of labelling individual Clubmen associatio
 ns as collections of either Royalist or Parliamentarian partisans. Whilst 
 the study of the Clubmen has developed from interpretations based upon rom
 anticised rural county neutralism and popular apathy\, a disproportionate 
 focus upon allegiance neglects the activist identities of the associations
  as the guarantors of the integrity of the parish community alongside the 
 implications of their far-reaching administrative demands.\n Jonathan Scot
 t’s depiction of ‘moments’ of radical socio-political activity in se
 venteenth century England can be used to re-interpret the parochial activi
 sm of the Clubmen. The associations extended and rearticulated the adminis
 trative\, confessional\, social and physical boundaries of the parish comm
 unity. This can be seen in the Clubmen petitions and articles that demande
 d the extension of associational authority over county administration. The
 se programmes were centred upon a series of institutional appropriations a
 nd structural reconfigurations which were seen as necessary to manage the 
 impact of armed conflict upon the fabric of the parish community. This att
 empt of the Clubmen to appropriate what they viewed as legitimate military
  and civil authority can be viewed as a distinct ‘moment’ of contempor
 ary socio-political activism.  \n
LOCATION:Wolfson Room South\, Trinity 
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