The Radical Rising

The Scottish Insurrection of 1820

Nonfiction, History, Revolutionary, British, Modern
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Author: Peter Berresford-Ellis, Seumas Mac A' Ghobhainn ISBN: 9780857908971
Publisher: Birlinn Publication: May 23, 2016
Imprint: Birlinn Language: English
Author: Peter Berresford-Ellis, Seumas Mac A' Ghobhainn
ISBN: 9780857908971
Publisher: Birlinn
Publication: May 23, 2016
Imprint: Birlinn
Language: English

Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordinary heroism of its leaders, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, and the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state.

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Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordinary heroism of its leaders, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, and the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state.

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