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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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