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 ltd.
Published: 1945
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Trials; Politics and government; Chartism; Liberty
Notes: "First published 1940.  New and revised edition 1945."
Table of contents: 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.