English Radical History

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  1. “Of all follies human nature can be guilty of there is none greater than to expect others to do for us what we ought to do for ourselves. To expect aid from Tories, Whigs, Liberals is sheer madness!” William Benbow, pamphleteer and radical reformer, was born 1787.

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    For those wondering, Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class' can downloaded for FREE from . Here is the link (you will need to download Adobe Digital Editions or similar software to view the file):

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    "Grant, O God of nations, that the folly or perverseness of our rulers may no longer deprive the poor of the comforts of life, nor deny to thy people any of their social and political rights." Prayer delivered at the opening of the Chartist National Convention 1839.

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    The National Convention, organised to facilitate the presentation of a Chartist petition to Parliament, opened 1839. The petition, which called for universal male suffrage, was signed by 1.3 million people, but MPs refused to hear the petitioners in June 1839.

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    “Shortly before he died, I invited Clement Attlee to Chequers...I asked him, parties and politics apart, whom he regarded the best prime minister qua prime minister since he first took an interest in politics. He had no hesitation – ‘Salisbury.’” Harold Wilson, 1976.

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    Paid a visit to the memorial of the Preston workers shot during the 1842 general strike. There is radical history to be proud of everywhere you go in Britian.

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    “I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver...from the enormous condescension of posterity.” E. P. Thompson, historian and author of the hugely influential ‘The Making of the English Working Class’, was born 1924.

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    The Working Class Academics Conference is now open for submissions and registrations - visit the website, check out the call for papers, send us questions, get involved in this great event we will build together

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    Edith Summerskill, physician and Labour politician, died 1980. Summerskill was an early member of the Socialist Medical Association which advocated a “socialised medical service, free and open to all” before the foundation of the NHS.

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    “Democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world.” Tony Benn (1925-2014)

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    “Blush, O England! blush for shame; Wipe the plague-spot from thy name; Up! and in thy might proclaim Thou’rt monarch of the sea! Strike the slaver’s flag of death; With the monster keep no faith; Then, as with an angel’s breath, Shout — the slave is free!” ‘Slavery’, c.1840.

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    1874: Thomas Burt (L) and Alexander Macdonald (R), both former miners, were elected as the first working-class MPs. Burt had begun work as a trapper boy in County Durham aged 10, while MacDonald had joined his father down the Lanarkshire mines aged 8.

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    “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

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    “From clouds of distress, we shall see the dawn break, The dawn of a day that the tyrant shall shake; And down from her throne, shall corruption be hurl’d, When again Britain rises, — the pride of the world.” ‘The Charter! The Charter!’, 1840.

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    “The nation is bound together by an invisible chain. The ruling class will rob, mismanage, lead us into the muck; but let popular opinion make itself heard, let them get a tug from below that they cannot avoid feeling, and it is difficult for them not to respond.” — George Orwell

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    Guy Fawkes, member of a group of English Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot, was due to be executed 1606. However, while climbing to the hanging platform, he jumped from the ladder and broke his neck, dying instantly. His lifeless body was nevertheless quartered.

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    “The lips of the tyrants are trembling and pale, In dismay they are dreading the shock, Of the millions who, bold in the truth of their cause, Are as strong as the adamant rock!” ‘The Voice of the People’, c. 1840.

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    Charles Bradlaugh, Radical-Liberal founder of the , died 1891. Elected MP for Northampton in 1880, Bradlaugh was denied entry to Parliament because he wished to affirm as an atheist. After winning multiple by-elections, he finally took his seat in 1886.

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    The body of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth 1653-58, was exhumed 1661 and subjected to a posthumous execution. After his body had been hanged in chains and thrown into a pit, Cromwell’s head was cut off and displayed on a spike in London until 1685.

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    “[The people’s] Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government; those Laws, by which their Life and their goods may be most their own. It is not for having a share in government (Sir) that is nothing pertaining to them.” King Charles I before his execution 1649.

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