"First published 1940. New and revised edition 1945."
Contents
Prologue: On British freedom -- "Wilkes and liberty!" -- Thomas Paine and the Rights of man -- The Scottish Jacobins and the British convention of 1793 -- The English Jacobins -- Castlereagh and Sidmouth's spies -- Peterloo; and Henry Hunt -- Richard Carlile and his shopmen -- The Tolpuddle martyrs -- Chartism: the first crisis -- Chartism: the second crisis -- Chartism: the third crisis -- The freethinkers: Bradlaugh's battle -- The socialists and the riots of 1886-7 -- The communists: the twelve of 1925 -- Epilogue: Treason, sedition, blasphemy.
