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Trials of British freedom; being some studies in the history of the fight for democratic freedom in Britain
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- by T.A. Jackson
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- English
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- London, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. [1940]
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- xxiii, 213 pages ; 19 cm
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- ocm05971015, ocm05971015
- Mainly sketches rewritten from a series of articles contributed by the present writer to the Sunday Worker in 1928-9. cf. Pref.
- "First published 1940."
- 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