The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law, and England's millenarian rising. Fought in a

The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social his

The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agr

Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters a

The first major study of the rural and cultural career of William Cobbett engages Cobbett's own writings, and other innovative sources such as popular songs, to