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...