Radical War 1820

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jenny and Annie have a look at a group of artisan weavers who inspired a strike of sixty thousand people in Glasgow and the industrial central belt. This episode looks at the “Radical War” of 1820 and examines the causes of this civil uprising and the bloody aftermath. Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, a podcast where we find wonderful and weird tales from Scottish history.
0:14.8	I'm Jenny and I'm Annie. And today we're talking about the magical war of 1820. I'll get my cannons ready.
0:21.5	Actually, it's not really a war like that, Jenny.
0:24.1	It's more of a kind of civil unrest.
0:26.1	Okay, well, I'll get my guillotine's ready.
0:28.3	Oh.
0:29.1	Nope, okay.
0:29.8	Well, it is a misleading name, all right?
0:31.5	But as we all know, that's just how things were back in the 1820s,
0:34.8	which is also known as the 19th century.
0:38.3	Jenny. I rest my case, need I say more, you know? Well, either way, we're now coming up to the
0:43.1	200-year anniversary of the unrest, and so we thought it would be fitting to take a look back
0:47.2	at the most radical of not quite wars. It is, and I'm really interested in what we can learn
0:52.0	about the civil disobedience of the past
0:54.2	and how we can apply these lessons to the modern day, especially as we face problems like
0:59.3	the climate crisis. So you might be thinking, how can the radical war be relevant to the environmental
1:04.4	crisis? Yep, yep, that's what I was thinking right there. Hi, Annie. Tell me. Well, first,
1:10.1	firstly, it features
1:13.2	normal people using power protest to demand a political change. Secondly, the 1820s was the
1:20.5	maturing of the first industrial revolution. So we've got machines replacing manpower in industries,
1:26.7	especially weaving.
1:28.3	And it's during this first industrial revolution that we see the birth of environmental movements.
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