Leaders of the people
Subtitle: studies in democratic history
By: by Joseph Clayton; with a frontispiece in photogravure and numerous other illustrations.
Publisher: M. Secker
Published: 1910
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Democracy; Great Britain -- History
Notes: Each chapter preceded by bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Archbishop Anselm and Norman autocracy, 1093-1130.; title: Thomas of Canterbury, the defender of the poor, 1162-1170.; title: William Fitz Osbert, the first English agitator, 1188-1189.; title: Stephen Langton and the Great charter, 1207-1215.; title: Bishop Grosseteste, the reformer, 1235-1253.; title: Simon of Montfort and the English Parliament, 1258-1265.; title: Wat Tyler and the peasant revolt, 1381.; title: Jack Cade, the captain of Kent, 1450.; title: Sir Thomas More and freedom of conscience, 1529-1535.; title: Robert Ket and the Norfolk rising, 1549.; title: Eliot, Hampden, and Pym and the supremacy of the Commons, 1626-1643.; title: John Lilburne and the Levellers, 1647-1653.; title: Winstanley the digger, 1649-1650.; title: Major Cartwright, the father of reform, 1776-1820.; title: Ernest Jones and chartism, 1838-1868.; title: Conclusion.; title: Index.