Richard Carlile’s daughter tells how her father, a tinsmith turned radical publisher, defied Church and State to print Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason. She follows him from Peterloo, the Manchester Massacre of 1819, through trials, the Six Acts, the Vice Society and the Cato Street plot to the years of imprisonment he endured for the right to publish and speak freely.
A partisan but valuable life of a forgotten hero of English press freedom. Download the free EPUB.