Titlebook: Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848; Essays in Honour of Michael T. Davis Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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,Spreading the Radical Word: The Circulation of William Hone’s 1817 Liturgical Parodies,and published three parodies based on passages from the Book of Common Prayer. The year 1817 marked one high point in the government’s efforts to stifle radical discourse — Habeas Corpus had been suspended, Cobbett had fled to America and many other prominent radicals had spent time in prison. As ch

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,Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics’ Institute, 1823– early 1820s in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, there were about 700 mechanics’ institutes and similar associations in Britain by 1850, with a membership of some 120,000. Such figures are misleading, however, for while many of these institutions have not yet been carefully studied, they have o

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,‘Rural War’ and the Missing Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century England,enduring question of the twentieth century, fuelling much of the work of Edward Thompson and of historians associated with . and the History Workshop movement.. But the question of the missing or lost revolution has not been the monopoly of the Left, for commentary on this great non-event has ranged

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Two Doubting Thomases: the British Progressive Enlightenment and the French Revolution,ansformation flowed into Britain from France. In turn, the government attempted to quash those ideas through its police spies, show trials, and ultimately, if it could, the execution of the guilty for high treason, or at the very least their transportation to Botany Bay..

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,Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics’ Institute, 1823–y in the institutes and their inability to fulfil their original intentions. For while they did develop teaching on a larger scale than similar organizations in this period, the teaching of political economy in particular remained controversial, and often contested by working-class radicals.

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Whiggery and America: Accommodating the Radical Threat,e of his magisterial . (1830). Bentham’s praise of America was wildly exuberant, if historically uncritical: ‘there, all is democracy; all is regularity, tranquillity, prosperity, security … no aristocracy; no monarchy; all that dross evaporated’:.

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Controlling the Riots: Dickens, , and Romantic Revolution,ction than the master of the genre, Walter Scott; indeed, he aimed to eclipse Scott on his own ground — the much-feted . of 1818 had centred similarly on the destruction of a mighty prison, the Tolbooth, in the Porteous Riot of 1736–7..