1794 Treason Trials
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The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty radicals were arrested; three we
Thomas Paine; a painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by George Romney (1792)
John Horne Tooke
James Gillray's cartoon of Thelwall speaking at Copenhagen Fields on 26 October 1795
Classical radicalism
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Radicalism was a political movement representing the leftward flank of liberalism between the late 18th and early 20th century. Certain aspects of the movement were precursors to a wide variety of mod
1794 Treason Trials
…The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty radicals were arrested; three were tried at the Old Bailey for high treason: Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke and John Thelwall. In a…
Jeremy Bentham
John Cartwright, founder of the Society for Constitutional Information and author of Take Your Choice and The English Constitution Produced and Illustrated.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Flyer for the Chartist demonstration on Kennington Common, 1848