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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history; Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School; Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands; Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet; Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history
The written record agrees with the genetic evidence that such movements of people increased already before the end of Roman rule. The term "Saxon" only began to be used by Roman authors in the 4th century, initially to refer to Germanic raiders from north of the Frankish tribes who lived near the Rhine delta and on the ocean shores.
Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues. This list excludes the following: Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements
Many other social movements were created at universities, where the process of mass education brought many people together. With the development of communication technologies, creation and activities of social movements became easier – from printed pamphlets circulating in the 18th century coffeehouses to newspapers and Internet , all those ...
Before the Normans arrived, Anglo-Saxon governmental systems were more sophisticated than their counterparts in Normandy. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] All of England was divided into administrative units called shires , with subdivisions; the royal court was the centre of government, and a justice system based on local and regional tribunals existed to ...
Modern Britain: A Social History 1750–1997 (2nd ed. 1997), with detailed bibliography pp 406–444; Ryder, Judith, and Harold Silver. Modern English society: history and structure 1850-1970 (1970) online. Sharpe, J. A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550–1760 (2009) Stearns, Peter, ed. Encyclopedia of Social History (1994) 856 pp.
The popular view is that new social history emerged in the 1960s with the publication of Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Writing in 1966 in The Times Literary Supplement, Thompson described his approach as "history from below" and explained that it had come from earlier developments within the French Annales School.
Before the 14th century, popular uprisings (such as uprisings at a manor house against an unpleasant overlord), though not unknown, tended to operate on a local scale. This changed in the 14th and 15th centuries when new downward pressures on the poor resulted in mass movements of popular uprisings across Europe.