Talk:Nottingham cheese riot

Date of riot
Are we absolutely sure about the date? It is stated as 2 October 1766 in Ref.3 (Palmer) as well as this Nottingham Uni source and this Working Class History source. These last two both say it started on 2 October 1766 and was quashed on the third day.

Ref.4 (McWilliams) states: "The annual Goose Fair opened in Nottingham on 2 October 1766" ... so assuming the riot broke out on the first day, and the fair was only ever a maximum of 8 days long (i.e. would have ended on or before the 10th that year), it is very unlikely that 18 Oct is correct.

The only source I can find that gives the date of the riot explicitly as 18 October is Ref.1 (Turton) but that could be an editorial mistake given that other sources seem to think it was the 2nd. The error might feasibly have crept in from the fact that 1766 is 18th century and "18th" was picked up as the date from that? If I'm right, that kind of puts a dampener on the DYK. Rodney Baggins (talk) 13:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I think you're right. This source also has it as 2 October (page 190).  I've found a mention of Eggleston in Records of the Borough of Nottingham: 1760-1800 where the mayor paid £1 5s for a hearse to take his body to Car Colston on 2 October.  I'll amend the article accordingly.  At least we got there in the end - Dumelow (talk) 15:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)