Trials of British freedom
Subtitle: being some studies in the history of the fight for democratic freedom in Britain
By: T. A. Jackson.
Series: Burt Franklin research & source works #244
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Trials -- Great Britain.; Chartism.; Liberty.; Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Notes: Reprint of the 1940 ed.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: Prologue; On British freedom.; title: Wilkes and liberty!; title: Thomas Paine and The rights of man.; title: The Scottish Jacobins and the British convention of 1793.; title: The English Jacobins.; title: Castlereagh and Sidmouth's spies.; title: Peterloo, and Henry Hunt.; title: Richard Carlile and his shopmen.; title: The Tolpuddle martyrs.; title: Chartism; the first crisis.; title: Chartism; the second crisis.; title: Chartism; the third crisis.; title: The Freethinkers; Bradlaugh's battle.; title: The Socialists and the riots of 1886-7.; title: The Communists-the twelve of 1925.; title: Epilogue: Treason, sedition, blasphemy.