Entanglements
V.G. Kiernan, 4 August 1983
The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling
edited by Jay Winter.
Cambridge, 315 pp., £25, February 1983,0 521 23444 1 Show More
edited by Jay Winter.
Cambridge, 315 pp., £25, February 1983,
The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830-60
edited by James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson.
Macmillan, 392 pp., £16, November 1982,0 333 32971 6 Show More
edited by James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson.
Macmillan, 392 pp., £16, November 1982,
Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of 19th-Century Working Class Autobiography
by David Vincent.
Methuen, 221 pp., £4.95, December 1982,0 416 34670 7 Show More
by David Vincent.
Methuen, 221 pp., £4.95, December 1982,
“... well as exceptional. O’Connor was still hankering for a partnership of classes in 1848, but as John Belchem says, writing (in somewhat eccentric English) of the fateful year, middle-class opinion was firmly behind the government and its repressive tactics. We may credit revolutionary happenings abroad with a decisive influence: by inspiring Chartists with ... ”