Event: Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain

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 Most Consistent of Them All’: William Sharman Crawford and the Politics of Suffrage

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