A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries, The Men and Women Who Fought for Our Freedoms

[iv], 640pp, plus a few black and white plate illustrations. In deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. A couple of tiny black spots on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring gift inscription, dated 2009, on front free endpaper. In its original, slightly bumped at edges, dust jacket. From medieval Runnymede to 20th century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, Vallance presents a rich and colourful history of rebels, radicals and revolutionaries who disrupted the established order in their fields.