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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’s Early Trade Unionism is now in print. Click here for further details.
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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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.
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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This will be the first paperback edition of this important work. Click here for further details.
We are now accepting pre-orders on the website at special pre-publication prices.
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.
This book is due to be published on October 25th.
We are now accepting pre-orders on the website at a special pre-publication price.
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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.