This is a review only recorded on one day of the celebrations which took place over several days.
I am told there was some political content with speeches.
There was much music and I managed to see/hear and record very little.
Perhaps next year will be different with greater political content.
Royal Square
The centre of the Jersey Reform Day protests on 28 September 1769
Olly Rybarczuk interview
Memorials at the Parade Park and Etoile Siree from Granville
Did the protestors sing any songs or beat any drums in 1769?
This has to be the biggest piece of history that you picked up in recent times. But already it's being changed into an annual event to promote tourism. What do you think Mike?
ReplyDeleteHaving campaigned for years to have 28 Sept 1769 and all that went with it recognised I really did not want it to become a pop festival. I have no objection to the music over several days but feel that a day should have been devoted to the political content. Of course the Crown Officers were the problem in 1769 and they remain the barrier against democracy even now. Unfortunately, our States reps lack any enthusiasm for promoting knowledge about the social history of this Island and prefer to promote entertainment if anything and they won't embrace the official title of "Jersey Reform Day" either but prefer to minimise it as a "corn riots" event. But at least the social history has been revealed to a small extent...
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