In the early 19th century, Henry Hunt became one of the most stirring orators of English Radicali...

A re-evaluation of the hoary problem of the question of revolution in Britain and Ireland during ...

On Friday, 23 November 1649 Thomas Totney, a puritan and veteran of the Civil War, was working in...

This book offers an evaluation of the political leadership of Feargus O'Connor, the most prominen...

Political philosophers (such as Gramsci) and social historians (such as E. P. Thompson) have sugg...

In the first elections called under the terms of the 1832 Reform Act the Tory party appeared doom...

With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plu...

The pieces in this collection range from an account of the Skeleton Army riots against the Salvat...

England was a spy culture in the years 1790 through 1820. Restriction, regulation and surveillanc...

By a Flash and a Scare illuminates the darker side of rural life in the nineteenth century. Flash...

In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natu...

It has been generally accepted that the eighteenth century witnessed a series of transformative p...

The Chartists is a major contribution to our understanding not just of Chartism but of the whole ...

1842 was a year of crisis in Britain, and no more so than in the West Riding town of Halifax. A g...

What explains the law-abidingness of late Victorian England? A number of modern historians conten...

The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against t...

During the eighteenth century a community of 'free' miners grew upon Crown land in the Forest of ...

Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent...

The full story of the riots in the Forest of Dean in 1831, and how they were suppressed, is told ...

Exploring a set of related themes dealing with popular radical language, ideology, and communicat...

The dozens of petitions addressed to Parliament and the army in the five months before Charles I'...

The Houndsditch murders of three City of London policemen in 1910 and the ensuing 'Siege of Sidne...

In the 1970s and 80s a revival of interest emerged in researching Bristol's vigorous radical past...

2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of an important and original voice in the history o...

This book traces the development of agrarian ideas from the 1770s through to Chartism, and seeks ...

Two of the most common types of popular disorders in late Tudor and early Stuart England were the...

This book traces the complex pattern of working-class radical endeavour in the West Riding textil...

A Towering Flame

With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plu...

Known for its protests, its squatting, and its resistance to central government and drawing on fi...

A number of British men and women with radical sympathies and links to the domestic reform moveme...