Seventeen short studies follow the English struggle for popular rights across eight centuries. Archbishops Anselm and Langton, Thomas Becket, Simon de Montfort, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, Thomas More and Robert Ket stand beside Eliot, Hampden and Pym, John Lilburne of the Levellers, Winstanley the Digger, and later agitators such as Major Cartwright and the Chartist Ernest Jones.
A readable gallery of rebels and reformers for anyone interested in the roots of English democracy. Download the free EPUB.