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Charles Bradlaugh and the English Republican Movement, 1868–1878

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Fergus A. D'Arcy
Fergus A. D'Arcy
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University College, Dublin
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The English republican movement of the late 1860s and early 1870s has received meagre notice in standard historical accounts of the Victorian period. If viewed as no more than a notorious episode of the time English republicanism perhaps deserved no better; but, if considered as a persistent element of the radical tradition dating from the 1790s, coming to climax and then anti-climax in the 1870s, it merited more than mere passing attention. It has never been the subject of a single substantial historical work, and given that it was so inextricably bound up with other elements of nineteenth-century radicalism, perhaps it never will. Nevertheless, it has been accorded more than passing reference in the work of Royle, Gossman, Hardie and Harrison.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1982 , pp. 367 - 383
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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