Trials of British freedom
Subtitle: being some studies in the history of the fight for democratic freedom in Britain
By: by T.A. Jackson.
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Trials -- Great Britain; Chartism; Liberty; Great Britain -- Politics and government
Table of contents: value: Foreword.; value: Prologue; On British freedom.; value: Wilkes and liberty?-Thomas Paine and The rights of man.; value: The Scottish Jacobins and the British convention of 1793.; value: The English Jacobins.; value: Castlereagh and Sidmouth's spies.; value: Peterloo, and Henry Hunt.; value: Richard Carlile and his shopmen.; value: The Tolpuddle martyrs.; value: Chartism; the first crisis.; value: Chartism; the second crisis.; value: Chartism; the third crisis.; value: The Freethinkers; Bradlaugh's battle.; value: The Socialists and the riots of 1886-7.; value: The Communists-the twelve of 1925.; value: Epilogue: Treason, sedition, blasphemy.