Unicorns: History of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794-1899 ... - 9781848845473

\n\nUNICORNS\nHistory of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794-1899\n\nUNICORNS\nHistory of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794-1899\n\nJonathan Hunt\u2019s well researched Unicorns reveals that the history of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry is inextricably linked to that of its home county of Nottinghamshire. Formed in 1794, as part of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, the Regiment had a primarily policing role until the mid-nineteenth century. This was a turbulent period with fears of revolutionary contagion and Napoleonic invasion. Social unrest took the form of the Bread Riots, Luddism, Republicanism, Reform Bill riots and, finally, the Chartist uprisings. The old order represented by Nottinghamshire\u2019s great landed gentry and other property owners struggled to control the aspirations of the middle and working classes during the Industrial Revolution and the Regiment was a powerful tool in doing this. By 1850 the nascent police force assumed the Regiment\u2019s role and it became;