The Radical Rising: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
May 2016 · Casemate Publishers
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The untold story of 19th century Scottish revolutionaries who fought for an independent republic is recounted in this "astonishing book" ( Observer, UK).
In April of 1820, the last armed uprising on British soil ignited in Glasgow. The attempt to sever the Union and establish a radical Scottish republic ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and eighty-five trials for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution has all but vanished from the historical record.
In The Radical Rising, historians Peter Berresford-Ellis and Seumas Mac a'Ghobhainn restore the radical rising to its rightful place in history. With an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, this volume vividly recaptures the extraordinary heroism of insurrection leaders John Baird and Andrew Hardie, as well as the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state.
The untold story of 19th century Scottish revolutionaries who fought for an independent republic is recounted in this "astonishing book" ( Observer, UK).
In April of 1820, the last armed uprising on British soil ignited in Glasgow. The attempt to sever the Union and establish a radical Scottis...
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Peter Berresford Ellis, an acknowledged expert on the Celtic world, is an historian, literary biographer and novelist. He is author of the bestselling Sister Fidelma historical mysteries (writing as Peter Tremayne). Seumas Mac a' Ghobainn was a Scottish author, essayist and propagandist who died in 1987. He was co-author (with Peter Berresford Ellis) of The Problem of Language Revival (1971).
Peter Berresford Ellis, an acknowledged expert on the Celtic world, is an historian, literary biographer and novelist. He is author of the bestselling Sister Fidelma historical mysteries (writing as Peter Tremayne). Seumas Mac a' Ghobainn was a Scottish author, essayist and propagandist who died...
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