Author: Robert HuishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The History of the Private and Political Life of the Late Henry Hunt, Esq., M.P. for Preston
Author: Robert HuishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The History of the Private and Political Life of Henry Hunt, Esq., His Times and Contemporaries
Author: Robert HUISHThe history of the private and political life of Henry Hunt, esq., his times and cotemporaries
Author: Robert HuishBibliotheca Somersetensis: County books, Bath excepted. A-K
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Northcroft's parliamentary chronicle. [With suppl. entitled] The critical review
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Author: Parliament proc, Will. ivPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A Guide to the Printed Materials for English Social and Economic History, 1750-1850
Author: Judith Blow WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reign of the Beast
Author: Adrian DesmondPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350142441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
The History of the Private and Political Life of the Late Henry Hunt, Esq., M.P. for Preston
Author: Robert HuishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
"Orator" Hunt
Author: John BelchemPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This first full-scale biography finally brings to light Hunt's vital role in molding the English working-class into an effective political force. Converted to the reform cause during the wars against Napoleonic France, Hunt gave popular radicalism a distinctly working-class perspective that countered the contemporary belief in a laissez-faire political economy. Hero of the unrepresented and repressed, scourge of the moderate reformers and gradualists, Hunt set the standard for the Chartist challenge. This work, based on a wide range of primary sources, reassessed Hunt's influential career and illuminates a formative period in the development of radical politics in England.