The Radical Rising
The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
An astonishing book' - Observer'Read this book . . . it should affect you to pity and admiration' - GuardianGlasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordin…
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Weitere Autoren: Mac A' Ghobhainn, Seumas
- ISBN: 978-0-85790-897-1
- EAN: 9780857908971
- Produktnummer: 19920796
- Verlag: Birlinn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'355 KB
Über den Autor
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). He is an Honorary Life President of the Scottish 1820 Society and Honorary Life Member of the Irish Literary Society (2002).
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