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From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.… (més)
I have only read the chapters from French revolution to Chartism but I found it well written. The author explained the background well and had many interesting facts that I didn't know and sources I wasn't aware of. He never slipped into a tirade of polemic but backed up his arguments well. Even when I did not agree with his analysis I could see where he was coming from. ( )
An entertaining book written with a good eye for the colourful anecdote and telling quote. It is, however, necessarily selective and this being so the author's sympathies are revealed. The Anti Corn Law League, one of the great radical movements in Britsh history, get barely a mention while the Suffragettes are discussed at tedious length. ( )
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No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future. Thomas Hobbes
Dedicatòria
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Primeres paraules
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In the early months of 878, Alfred, King of the West Saxons, was in hiding in the dank and impenetrable marshland of the Somerset Levels. - Introduction
King John has long been portrayed as the ultimate "bad king" who had to be restrained by "good barons" - often presented, as V.H.Galbraith put it, as "precursors of their much later descendants, the Whigs". - Chapter 1
Citacions
Darreres paraules
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The danger, though, was that the widespread acceptance of this constitutional tradition could, in turn, lead to a dangerous complacency about the security of British democracy. - Chapter 22
From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.
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