E.P. Thompson – Whigs & Hunters • Dorothy Thompson – The Chartists

E.P. Thompson’s Whigs & Hunters and Dorothy Thompson’s The Chartists will both be published on 1st March. We are now taking orders at special pre-publication prices.

Malcolm Chase – Early Trade Unionism: Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour

We are now accepting pre-orders (at a special pre-publication price) for this book, which will be published in September.
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Nigel Costley – West Country Rebels

This book features the struggles along with the characters who defied convention and helped organise around dangerous ideas of freedom, equality and justice in South West England. Now available at a special price.

John Belchem – ‘Orator’ Hunt, Henry Hunt and English Working Class Radicalism

In the early 19th century, Henry Hunt became one of the most stirring orators of English Radicalism. His speech following the “Peterloo” massacre cost him three years in prison and gave him a reputation for inciting the rabble to violence. This book, first published in 1985 by Clarendon Press, considers his place in the radical movement.
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David Walsh – Making Angels in Marble, The Conservatives, the Early Industrial Working Class and Attempts at Political Incorporation

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Other News

Malcolm Chase – Early Trade Unionism, Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour

This will be the first paperback edition of this important work. Click here for further details.

Roger Wells – Wretched Faces, Famine in Wartime England 1793-1801

Ralph Anstis– Warren James and the Dean Forest Riots, The Disturbances of 1831

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Bob Bushaway – By Rite, Custom, Ceremony and Community in England 1700-1880

This book is due to be published on March 31st.
We are now accepting pre-orders on the website at a special pre-publication price.

Malcolm Chase – The People’s Farm, English Radical Agrarianism 1775-1840

This book is due to be published on October 25th.
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Other News

John E. Archer, (author of By a Flash and a Scare), was interviewed for an episode of BBC Radio 4′s Making History. Among other subjects, this 30 minute programme covered The Halsted Riots of 1816, which were a precursor to the Captain Swing uprising of 1830. It is available to listen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmlh8.

Event: Radical History Zone at Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
Location: Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Date: September 11th
More info: www.brh.org.uk/bookfair2010/, www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/

The Radical History Zone has been organised by the Bristol Radical History Group, (www.brh.org.uk), who are ever-busy, organising a range of history events, staging walks, talks, gigs, reconstructions, films, exhibitions, trips through the archives and fireside story telling. In addition to all of this, they also publish a range of pamphlets.

As well as the stall, we will be participating in a workshop, Do It Yourself Publishing, in collaboration with Richard Jones (Tangent Books), Randall Brantley (Bristol Radical Pamphleteer), and Alex (Past Tense Press), where we will describe and explain the various hurdles to overcome and methods to utilise in order to get publishing.

Apparently, the Radical History Zone is contentious: “Strangely, a few people have been frowning at us after the announcement of the Radical History Zone at this years Bristol anarchist bookfair. They aren’t all anarchists we are told, some are even anti-anarchist…” Read more here: http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/?p=936.

For our part, Breviary Stuff Publications is not an anarchist publisher, if anything, you might say BSP is a people publisher; we seek to be inclusive rather than exclusive.

Other News

Work is continuing apace on the 4 previously announced forthcoming titles, and we are now making plans for 2011. We are in talks about 3 brand new titles, (as opposed to reprints as we have done so far), as well as several other long-out-of-print important works. More news as it happens.

Barry Reay – The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers, Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England

This book is due to be published at the end of the month.
We are now accepting pre-orders on the website at a special pre-publication price.

Bob Bushaway – By Rite, Custom, Ceremony and Community in England 1700-1880

Bringing together a wealth of research, this book explores the view that rural folk practices were a mechanism of social cohesion, and social disruption. Through them the interdependence of the rural working-class and the gentry was affirmed, and infringements of the rights of the poor resisted, sometimes aggressively.

Malcolm Chase – The People’s Farm, English Radical Agrarianism 1775-1840

This book traces the development of agrarian ideas from the 1770s through to Chartism, and seeks to explain why, in an era of industrialization and urban growth, land remained one of the major issues in popular politics. Malcolm Chase considers the relationship between ‘land consciousness’ and early socialism; attempts to create alternative communities; and contemporary perceptions of nature and the environment. The People’s Farm also provides the most extensive study to date of Thomas Spence, and his followers the Spenceans.

Breviary Stuff Publications is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the following two works.

Roger Wells – Insurrection, The British Experience 1795-1803

On 16 November 1802 a posse of Bow Street Runners raided the Oakley Arms, a working class pub in Lambeth, on the orders of the Home Office. Over thirty men were arrested, among them, and the only one of any social rank, Colonel Edward Marcus Despard. Despard and twelve of his associates were subsequently tried for high treason before a Special Commission, and Despard and six others were executed on 21 February 1803. It was alleged that they had planned to kill the King, seize London and overturn the government and constitution.

Roger Wells – Wretched Faces, Famine in Wartime England, 1793-1801

“The histrory of riots reaches its full maturity when riots break out of monographic case studies to be incorporated into full histories. Roger Wells includes riot as one dimension of his rich attempt to comprehend the whole range of responses of British society to the famines of 1794-96 and 1799-1801. These famines dramatically revealed the fragile equilibrium underpinning national subsistence, and its propensity to collapse. Wells explains how and why the archaic structure of state and society in Britain did just manage not to collapse. He succeeds masterfully at the national level. His study is essential to a full undertsanding of British society.” 

We aim to have both these titles in print by the autumn. Further details will be available on the website shortly.

John E. Archer – ‘By a Flash and a Scare’, Arson, Animal Maiming, and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870

This book is due to be published on or around May 14th.
We are now accepting pre-orders on the website at a special pre-publication price.
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