With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plu...
The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against t...
In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natu...
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...
This book traces the development of agrarian ideas from the 1770s through to Chartism, and seeks ...
In the early 19th century, Henry Hunt became one of the most stirring orators of English Radicali...
The full story of the riots in the Forest of Dean in 1831, and how they were suppressed, is told ...
Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent...
The Chartists is a major contribution to our understanding not just of Chartism but of the whole ...
What explains the law-abidingness of late Victorian England? A number of modern historians conten...
The pieces in this collection range from an account of the Skeleton Army riots against the Salvat...