Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848

Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis

M. Davis

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN:
  9780333743096
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230509382
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate. This book honours one of the subject's most renowned and respected historians, Professor Malcolm I. Thomis. In a collection distinguished by its formidable range of contributors, a series of stimulating essays explores and re-examines the threats and ideas of revolution and the byzantine networks and character of British radical culture in the turbulent and intriguing years between 1775 and 1848.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: ‘To Grow Gently Older and Wiser’ – Personal Reflections on Malcolm Thomis
• 1 ‘The Friends of America’: British Sympathy with the American Revolution
• 2 Two Doubting Thomases: the British Progressive Enlightenment and the French Revolution
• 3 The Political Showman at Home: Reflections on Popular Radicalism and Print Culture in the 1790s
• 4 The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794
• 5 John Thelwall’s Political Ambivalence: Reform and Revolution
• 6 Wondering about Wonders: Paine, Constâncio and The Age of Reason, 1794–97
• 7 The United Irishmen and the Politics of Banishment, 1798–1807
• 8 ‘Good for the Public Example’: Daniel Isaac Eaton, Prosecution, Punishment and Recognition, 1793–1812
• 9 A Loyal Englishman?: John Lloyd and Aspects of Oath-taking in 1812
• 10 Spreading the Radical Word: the Circulation of William Hone’s 1817 Liturgical Parodies
• 11 Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics’ Institute, 1823–8
• 12 ‘Rural War’ and the Missing Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century England
• 13 Whiggery and America: Accommodating the Radical Threat
• 14 Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Rudge and Romantic Revolution
• Malcolm I. Thomis: a Bibliography
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Index