Looking at History

Interview with Mark Crail   This interview was originally published on the Chartist Ancestor blog but, although it is referred to ...

With the 200th anniversary of the unprovoked attack by the forces of the local state on an unarmed crowd in Manchester while there is no qu...

    There are occasions when doing research that you come across something that you’ve always accepted and then find out you’ve been...

Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...

From the introduction : The golden age of research into the Chartist Movement began in the late 1950s and came to an end in the m...

Richard Brown, Famine, Fenians and Freedom, 1830-1882 , Authoring History, second edition, 2017, £20.37, paperback, ISBN 978-1540352231; ...

There have been important change in the Rebellion Trilogy, a series of books that were written between 2004 and 2010 and published in 2010...

Chartism: A Global History and other essays , Richard Brown, Authoring History, 2016, 324 pp., £10.96, paper, ISBN 1534981438   This v...

When I retired it was my intention to write a book on Chartism…one volume that distilled much of my teaching of the subject into a ...