Contents

Preface

Preface to 1980 edition

PART ONE: THE LIBERTY TREE

1 Members Unlimited

2 Christian and Apollyon

3 ‘Satan’s Strongholds’

4 The Free-born Englishman

5 Planting the Liberty Tree

PART TWO: THE CURSE OF ADAM

6 Exploitation

7 The Field Labourers

8 Artisans and Others

9 The Weavers

10 Standards and Experiences

I Goods

II Homes

III Life

IV Childhood

11 The Transforming Power of the Cross

I Moral Machinery

II The Chiliasm of Despair

12 Community

I Leisure and Personal Relations

II The Rituals of Mutuality

III The Irish

IV Myriads of Eternity

PART THREE: THE WORKING-CLASS PRESENCE

13 Radical Westminster

14 An Army of Redressers

I The Black Lamp

II The Opaque Society

III The Laws against Combination

IV Croppers and Stockingers

V The Sherwood Lads

VI By Order of the Trade

15 Demagogues and Martyrs

I Disaffection

II Problems of Leadership

III The Hampden Clubs

IV Brandreth and Oliver

V Peterloo

VI The Cato Street Conspiracy

16 Class Consciousness

I The Radical Culture

II William Cobbett

III Carlile, Wade and Gast

IV Owenism

V ‘A Sort of Machine’

Postscript

Bibliographical Note

Acknowledgements

Index