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John Sanders — Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-class leadership and organisation in the West Riding textile district, 1829-1839
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Rachel Rogers — Friends of the Revolution: The British Radical Community in Early Republican Paris 1792-1794
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Simon Hannah — Radical Lambeth 1978-1991
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John E, Archer — By A Flash And A Scare: Arson, Animal Maiming, and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870
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Norah Carlin — Regicide or Revolution? What Petitioners Wanted, September 1648 – February 1649
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Philip Ruff — A Towering Flame: The Life & Times of the Elusive Latvian Anarchist Peter the Painter
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David Worrall — Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820
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David Walsh — The Sons of Belial: Protest and Community Change in the North-West, 1740-1770
The Growth of Capitalism on the Eve of Industrialisation, Volume I
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The Refiner’s Fire: The Collected Works of TheaurauJohn Tany, annotated, edited and introduced by Ariel Hessayon
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Chris Fisher – Custom, Work & Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788-1888
With a new preface by Rich Daniels, chairman of Hands Off Our Forest and Forest of Dean Freeminers Association.
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Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies & Reds: A Radical History of Bristol, 1880-1939
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James Epstein – Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850
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James Epstein – The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O’Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832-1842
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Announcing Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary, marking the the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Spence.
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What explains the law-abidingness of late Victorian England? A number of modern historians contend that the answer lies with the effectiveness of policing, and with the imposition of a ‘policeman-state’ in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Exploiting the vast archive that Charles Booth amassed for his leviathan social investigation to explore the social order of London’s East End, Life and Labour of the People in London, this volume takes issue with this answer.
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The essays in this volume, (first published between 1977 and 2000), are coherent expressions, if not of a single philosophy, at least of a recurrent theme. That theme is the relationship between order and disorder in England over the century from 1850. Despite the stress fractures caused by deepening industrialization, strengthening class mobilization, and cyclical economic dislocation, Britain was a relatively peaceable kingdom in these years. Who and what were responsible for the imposition of social order?
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E.P. Thompson’s Whigs & Hunters and Dorothy Thompson’s The Chartists are now in print.

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.

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This book is due to be published on March 31st.
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This book is due to be published on October 25th.
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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.

This book is due to be published at the end of the month.
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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.

This book is due to be published on or around May 14th.
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