With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plu...
Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent...
What explains the law-abidingness of late Victorian England? A number of modern historians conten...
The pieces in this collection range from an account of the Skeleton Army riots against the Salvat...
During the eighteenth century a community of 'free' miners grew upon Crown land in th...
It has been generally accepted that the eighteenth century witnessed a series of transformative p...
A re-evaluation of the hoary problem of the question of revolution in Britain and Ireland during ...
In the first elections called under the terms of the 1832 Reform Act the Tory party appeared doom...
Two of the most common types of popular disorders in late Tudor and early Stuart England were the...
In the 1970s and 80s a revival of interest emerged in researching Bristol's vigorous radical past...
In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natu...
Political philosophers (such as Gramsci) and social historians (such as E. P. Thompson) have sugg...