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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: ‘Peaceably If We May, Forcibly If We Must’: Ball among the Chartists

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42759

Blurb:

This chapter looks at how Ball (often Southey’s) and the rebels of 1381 were a point of reference in Chartist discourse and propaganda in the mid-nineteenth century. This also includes a discussion of the development of an English identity grounded in politics, economic behaviour, culture, etc., rather than a biologically racialised Victorian English identity.

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