Michael Herbert (Red Flag Walks) has announced an eight week course covering the history of radical women in Britain between 1819 and 1918. The course will run online via Zoom each Sunday for eight weeks at 2:00pm, beginning on Sunday 11 October and ending on Sunday 29 November. The course will cover the following themes: Female Reform Societies and the 1819 Peterloo Massacre: In the … Continue reading Online series: Radical Women, 1819 to 1928
Dr Laura C. Forster (University of York) will deliver an online and in-person talk on Tuesday 9 June titled: “Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain”, covering her recent book, The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871 (Oxford University Press, 2025). Dr Forster’s paper examines the intellectual and political afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain. Focusing … Continue reading Event: Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain
The small copper token shown here is one of a vast number produced by the Newcastle-born radical Thomas Spence and distributed from his London bookshop, The Hive of Liberty, in High Holborn. Continue reading Thomas Spence and a radical propaganda token from eighteenth century London
Author: Anthony DalyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. This article examines William Sharman Crawford’s participation in mid-nineteenth-century popular radicalism in England. Despite his unusual background as a wealthy Irish landlord and his limitations as a politician, Sharman Crawford emerged as an important figure in Chartism, especially during the early 1840s when he served as MP for Rochdale. … Continue reading ‘The Most Consistent of Them All’: William Sharman Crawford and the Politics of Suffrage
