Book description
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for
themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution,
the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary
government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States
ratified its Bill of Rights, England's barons forced King John to
accept the Magna Carta. In 1926 over 1. 5 million strikers brought the
nation to its knees.
From the Peasants' Revolt to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell
to Arthur Scargill, this ground-breaking and hugely enjoyable book
describes a rich and continuous tradition of resistance, rebellion
and radicalism, of violent and charismatic individuals with axes to
grind, and of social eruptions and political earthquakes that have
shaped England's whole culture and character.
