1688-1830
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Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
An English radical, whose advocacy of equal rights for women and men attracted considerable attention in her lifetime, Wollstonecraft has subsequently acquired a reputation as the pre-eminent feminist polemicist of her day. Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London, the second of seven children of Edward John Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dixon. Her…
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The Black Book and the reform of public life in early nineteenth-century Britain
An exposé of corruption which contributed to parliamentary reform, the roots of Liberalism and modern definitions of corruption and standards in public life.
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The Peterloo massacre
Review of Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre (Head of Zeus, 2018); Polyp, Eva Schlunke and Robert Poole, Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre (New Internationalist, 2019); Robert Poole, Peterloo: The English Uprising (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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The Peterloo Massacre and Nineteenth-Century Popular Radicalism
Evening meeting, 16 July 2019, with Robert Poole and Jacqueline Riding; chair: Liz Barker.
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The Pisan Triumvirate
The Libertine, the Atheist, and The Liberal.