A Radical History Of Britain

by Edward Vallance

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  ___, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 (3rd edn, Harlow, 2005)

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  ___, Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual and Symbol in England, 1790–1850 (Oxford, 1994)

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  Gurney, J., Brave Community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution (Manchester, 2007)

  Harriss, G., Shaping the Nation: England, 1360–1461 (Oxford, 1998)

  Harvey, I. M. W., Jack Cade’s Rebellion of 1450 (Oxford, 1991)

  Hay, D., et al., Albion’s Fatal Tree (Harmondsworth, 1977)

  Hay, D., and Rogers, N., Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Oxford, 1997)

  Hessayon, A., ‘Gold Tried in the Fire’: Theaurau John Tany and the English Revolution (Basingstoke, 2007)

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  ___, The World Turned Upside Down (London, 1972)

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  Hindmarsh, G., Thomas Paine: The Case of the King of England and His Officers of Excise (privately printed, 1998)

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  Holton, S. S., Feminism and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900–1918 (Cambridge, 1986)

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  Hopper, A. J., ‘Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (Manchester, 2007)

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  Jones, D. J. V., The Last Rising: The Newport Insurrection of 1839 (Oxford, 1985)

  Jones, W. R. D., Thomas Rainborowe (c. 1610–1648): Civil War Seaman, Siegemaster and Radical (Woodbridge, 2005)

  Justice, S., Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (London, 1994)

  Kaye, H. J., Tom Paine and the Promise of America (New York, 2005)

  Keane, J., Tom Paine: A Political Life (London, 2003)

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  Kesselring, K., Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (Cambridge, 2003)

  Kett, G., The Pedigree of Kett of Wymondham, co. Norfolk. AD 1180–1913 (Cambridge, 1913)

  Kishlansky, M., Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986)

  Kramnick, I., and Sheerman, B., Harold Laski: A Life on the Left (London, 1993)

  Lake, P., The Boxmaker’s Revenge: ‘Orthodoxy’, ‘Heterodoxy’ and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London (Manchester, 2001)

  Langford, P., A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727–83 (2nd edn, Oxford, 1998)

  Law, C., Suffrage and Power: The Women’s Movement 1918–1928 (London, 1997)

  Lawrence, A., Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642–1651 (Woodbridge, 1990)

  Leng, T., Benjamin Worsley (1618–1677): Trade, Interest and the Spirit in Revolutionary England (Woodbridge, 2008)

  Levene, M., and Roberts, P., eds, The Massacre in History (Oxford, 1999)

  Liddington, J., and Norris, J., One Hand Tied Behind Us: The Rise of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (2nd edn, London, 2000)

  Linebaugh, P., and Rediker, M., The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (London, 2000)

  McBriar, A. A., Fabian Socialism and English Politics 1884–1918 (Cambridge, 1966)

  MacCarthy, F., William Morris: A Life for Our Time (London, 1994)

  McCormack, M., The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England (Manchester, 2005)

  McDowell, N., The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution 1630–1660 (Oxford, 2003)

  McLynn, F., Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest (London, 2006)

  MacRaild, D., Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants (Liverpool, 2005)

  Manning, B., The Far Left in the English Revolution (London, 1999)

  Marlow, J., The Tolpuddle Martyrs (London, 1971)

  Marsh, C. W., The Family of Love in English Society 1550–1630 (Cambridge, 1993)

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  ___, Our Island Story: A History of Britain for Boys and Girls from the Romans to Queen Victoria (Civitas edn, Bath, 2005)

  Marshall, P., William Godwin (London, 1984)

  Martin, R., The Lancashire Giant: David Shackleton, Labour Leader and Civil Servant (Liverpool, 2000)

  Mayers, R. E., 1659: The Crisis of the Commonwealth (Woodbridge, 2004)

  Mayhall, L. E. N., The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860–1930 (Oxford, 2003)

  Mendle, M., ed., The Putney Debates of 1647 (Cambridge, 2001)

  Morrill, J. S., Cheshire 1603–1660: County Government during the ‘English Revolution’ (Oxford, 1974)

  Morton, A. L., When the People Arose: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 (London, 1981)


  Morton, T., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge, 2006)

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  Musson, A., Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants’ Revolt (Manchester, 2001)

  Nairn, T., The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy (2nd edn, London, 1994) Nelson, C., Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (London, 2006)

  Newman, G., The Rise of English Nationalism (New York, 1987)

  Nora, P., Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past (3 vols, New York, 1996–8)

  O’Gorman, F., British Conservatism: Conservative Thought from Burke to Thatcher (London, 1986)

  ___, Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England 1734–1832 (Oxford, 1989)

  Oman, Sir C., The Great Revolt of 1381 (Oxford, 1906)

  Orth, J. V., Combination and Conspiracy: A Legal History of Trade Unionism, 1721–1906 (Oxford, 1991)

  Pallister, A., Magna Carta: The Heritage of Liberty (Oxford, 1971)

  Pelling, H., The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile (London, 1975)

  Phillips, M., The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas behind It (London, 2003)

  Pilger, J., Freedom Next Time (London, 2006)

  Plummer, A., Bronterre: A Political Biography of Bronterre O’Brien 1804–1864 (London, 1971)

  Poole, S., The Politics of Regicide in England, 1760–1850 (Manchester, 2000)

  Prothero, I., Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Folkestone, 1979)

  Pugh, M., The Pankhursts (London, 2001)

  Purkiss, D., The English Civil War: A People’s History (London, 2006)

  Purvis, J., Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (London, 2002)

  Reay, B., and McGregor, J. F., eds, Radical Religion in the English Revolution (Oxford, 1984)

  ___, The Quakers and the English Revolution (London, 1985)

  Reid, A. J., and Pelling, H., A Short History of the Labour Party (12th edn, Basingstoke, 2005)

  ___, United We Stand: A History of Britain’s Trade Unions (London, 2005)

  Rosen, A., Rise Up, Women! The Militant Campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union 1903–1914 (Aldershot, 1974)

  Royle, E., Chartism (3rd edn, Harlow, 1996)

  Rudé, G., Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study (2nd edn, London, 1983)

  Sainsbury, J., John Wilkes: The Lives of a Libertine (Bodmin, 2006)

  Sawer, M., ed., Elections: Full, Free and Fair (Annandale, NSW, 2001)

  Schofield, R. E., The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (Pennsylvania, 2004)

  Scott, J., Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge, 2004)

  Searle, G. R., A New England? Peace and War 1886–1918 (Oxford, 2004)

  Sissons, M., and French, P., eds, The Age of Austerity 1945–51 (Harmondsworth, 1963)

  Smith, N., Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640–1660 (Oxford, 1989)

  Smith, O., The Politics of Language, 1791–1819 (Oxford, 1984)

  Smyth, A. P., King Alfred the Great (Oxford, 1995)

  Stevens, J., England’s Last Revolution, Pentrich 1817 (Stoke, 1977)

  Thomas, D. O., The Honest Mind: The Thought and Work of Richard Price (Oxford, 1977)

  Thompson, D., The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution (Aldershot, 1986)

  Thompson, E. P., William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (London, 1955)

  ___, The Making of the English Working Class (rev. edn, London, 1968)

  ___, Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act (London, 1975)

  ___, Witness against the Beast (London, 1993)

  Tickner, L., The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign (Chicago, 1988)

  Todd, J., Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (London, 2000)

  Vallance, E., Revolutionary England and the National Covenant (Woodbridge, 2005)

  ___, The Glorious Revolution: 1688 and Britain’s Fight for Liberty (London, 2006)

  Wall, A. D., Power and Protest in England, 1525–1640 (London, 2000)

  Wells, R., Insurrection: The British Experience, 1795–1803 (Gloucester, 1983)

  Wickham, C., Framing the Early Middle Ages (Oxford, 2005)

  ___, ed., Rodney Hilton’s Middle Ages, Past and Present, supplement 2 (2007)

  Wilson, B., The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press (London, 2005)

  Wood, A., Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 2002)

  ___, The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2007)

  Wood, M., Radical Satire and Print Culture: 1790–1822 (Oxford, 1994)

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  Woolrych, A., Britain in Revolution 1625–1660 (Oxford, 2002)

  Wright, P., On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain (London, 1986)

  Wrightson, K., English Society 1850–1680 (2nd edn, London, 2003)

  Zagorin, P., Rebels and Rulers, 1500–1600, vol. 1, Society, States and Early Modern Revolution: Agrarian and Urban Rebellions (Cambridge, 1982)

  CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  Bush, M. L., ‘The Risings of the Commons in England, 1381–1549’, in J. Denton, ed., Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Manchester, 1999), ch. 7

  Coffey, J., ‘A Ticklish Business: Defining Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Puritan Revolution’, in D. Lowenstein and J. Marshall, eds, Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture (Cambridge, 2006), ch. 5

  Davis, J. C., ‘The Levellers and Christianity’, in B. Manning, ed., Politics, Religion and the English Civil War (London, 1973), pp. 225–50

  Dinwiddy, J. R., ‘Bentham’s Transition to Political Radicalism, 1809–1810’, in his Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850 (London, 1992), ch. 15

  Gillingham, J., ‘Historians without Hindsight: Coggeshall, Diceto and Howden on the Early Years of John’s Reign’, in S. D. Church, ed., King John: New Interpretations (Woodbridge, 1999)

  Harvey, I. M. W., ‘Was There Popular Politics in Fifteenth-Century England?’, in R. H. Britnell and A. J. Pollard, eds, The McFarlane Legacy: Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society (Stroud, 1995), pp. 155–74

  Hessayon, A., ‘Fabricating Radical Traditions’, in M. Caricchio and G. Tarantino, eds, Cromohs Virtual Seminars. Recent Historiographical Trends of the British Studies (17th–18th Centuries), 2006–7, 1–6

  Hill, C., ‘From Lollards to Levellers’, in M. Cornforth, ed., Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton (London, 1978), ch. 3

  ___, ‘Censorship and English Literature’, in The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill (Brighton, 1985), i, pp. 32–71

  Hobsbawm, E., ‘The Fabians Reconsidered’, in his Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour (London, 1986), ch. 14

  Horton, S. S., ‘British Freewomen: National Identity, Constitutionalism and Languages of Race in Early Suffragist Histories’, in E. J. Yeo, ed., Radical Femininity: Women’s Self-Representation in the Public Sphere (Manchester, 1998)

  Kelsall, M., ‘Byron’s politics’, in D. Bone, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 47–9

  Lake, P., ‘Anti-Popery, the Structure of a Prejudice’ in R. Cust and A. Hughes, eds, Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics, 1603–42 (Basingstoke, 1989), ch. 3

  McWilliam, R., ‘Radicalism and Popular Culture: The Tichborne Case and the Politics of “Fair Play”, 1867–1886’, in E. Biagini and A. J. Reid, eds, Currents of Radicalism: Popular Politics and Party Politics in Britain, 1850–1914 (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 3


  Pickering, P. A., ‘The Chartist Rites of Passage: Commemorating Feargus O’Connor’, in P. A. Pickering and A. Tyrrell, eds, Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Basingstoke, 2004), ch. 5

  Rendall, J., ‘Citizenship, Culture and Civilisation: The Languages of British Suffragists, 1866–1874’, in C. Daley and M. Nolan, eds, Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (Auckland, 1994), pp. 127–50

  ___, ‘The Citizenship of Women and the Reform Act of 1867’, in C. Hall, K. McClelland and J. Rendall, eds, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 (Cambridge, 2000)

  Schofield, P., ‘Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution and Political Radicalism’, in F. Rosen, ed., Jeremy Bentham (Farnham, 2007), ch. 22

  Skinner, Q., ‘Classical Liberty and the Coming of the English Civil War’, in M. Van Gelderen and Q. Skinner, eds, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, vol. 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2002), ch. 1

  Stedman Jones, G., ‘Rethinking Chartism’, in his Languages of Class: Studies in English Working-Class History 1832–1982 (Cambridge, 1983), ch. 3

  Wells, R., ‘Southern Chartism’, in J. Rule and R. Wells, Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England 1740–1850 (London, 1997), ch. 7

  Wood, A., ‘Kett’s rebellion’, in C. Rawcliffe and R. Wilson, eds, Medieval Norwich (London, 2004)

  UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND THESES

  Blundell, J., ‘The Invention of a Radical Tradition: The Case of the Levellers and “The Business at Burford”’, paper presented at the British Marxist Historians and the Making of Social Movements conference, Edgehill College, 2002

  Brent, C., ‘Thirty-something: Thomas Paine at Bull House in Lewes – Six Formative Years’, forthcoming article, Sussex Archaeological Society

  Bunting, A. J., ‘The Pentrich Rising of 1817’, unpublished dissertation

  Jones, A. C., ‘“Commotion Time”: The English Rising of 1549, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Warwick University, 2003

  McElligott, J., ‘William Hone, Print Culture, and the Nature of Radicalism’, chapter in A. Hessayon, ed., Rediscovering Radicalism in the British Isles and Ireland (forthcoming)

  Peacey, J., ‘Popularity and the Politician: An MP and His Public, 1640–1644’, paper presented at University of Liverpool, 30 March 2007