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Book SynopsisGeorge Julian Harney was one of the half-dozen most important leaders of Chartism. This selection from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle is the first book to reprint any of his journalism. Harney is a key figure in the history of English radicalism.
Trade Review'... the collection brings to life one of Britain's most interesting lost radicals'. The Guardian
Table of ContentsIntroduction, The Roll-Call: Thomas Cooper, Samuel Kydd, Abel Heywood, John Bedford Leno, Frederick Engels. Other Radical Personalities: Karl Marx, Arthur O'Neill, The deaths of Ernest Jones and Henry George, Charles Bradlaugh, Edward Aveling - and the Northampton by-election, Madam Blavatsky - and Annie Besant. The 1830s & 1840s: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, "TO STOP THE DUKE, GO FOR GOLD",The Sacred Month, Feargus O'Connor and a self-portrait, Scotland and Scottish Chartism, Chartist Headgear, The Free Trade Fetish, The Working of Free Trade. Russia: The Latest Russian Atrocity, Two Books about Russia, Stepniak Speaks, The Dead Tsar. Turkey: The New Crusade. The USA: Some American Items, Looking Backward. Contemporary British Politics & Society: 'Am I Not a Man, and a Brother?', Theocracy, The Labour Congress, The Conflict, Illusions, Two periodicals, The New Crusade: A Prelude to ---?. The Press: The Liberty of the Press, Milton. Literature: Byron, Primrose Day: Byron and Disraeli, Burns - and Harney in Dumfries, Leigh Hunt - and Chartist imprisonment, Heinrich Heine - and James Thomson (BV), Review of James Thomson (BV), Biographical and Critical Studies, Truth in Fiction. Some Autobiographical Fragments: On Walter Scott and bookshops, On reading Robert Southey, On James Watson, On Thomas Wakley, On the War of the Unstamped, On leaving the Northern Star, On David Urquhart and the Foreign Affairs Committees, On editing the Jersey Independent, On the temporary loss of use of his right hand, On not writing an autobiography. A bibliographical note, index.
