Download or read book The Autobiography of Francis Place written by Francis Place and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-03-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Place's autobiography presents a vivid and readable account of the early life of one of the best-known radical reformers of the early 19th century. The publication of Place's manuscript for the first time in book form is a landmark in the expanding field of studies in artisan self-consciousness of the pre-Victorian era. The book will be of obvious value to those interested in the origins of the Reform Movement and especially of the controversial reform group, the London Corresponding society. In his description of the rise and fall of the LCS and of the men who composed it and other reform groups. Place brings to life the human feelings and failings of the working-class democratic movement, and his own lifelong attempts to 'promote the welfare of the working class'.
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Download or read book Bygones Worth Remembering written by George Jacob Holyoake and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Bygones Worth Remembering by George Jacob Holyoake
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Download or read book English Radicalism written by S. Maccoby and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 2 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century.
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