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T:Britain and the French Revolution, View Online c.1785-c.1804
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Proposed Seminar Titles
Week 7: The Impact of the French Revolution upon reforming causes in Britain. (15 items)
Principal primary sources. (3 items)
A Discourse on the love of our country - Price, Richard. Chapter | Core (Must Read)
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke, Edmund, Mitchell, L. G., 1993 Book | Core (Must Read) | See catalogue for various other edtions.
A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Suffolk ...at Ipswich ... 18 January 1793 - John Howe, Lord Chedworth, 1992. Article | Core (Must Read) | From Charges to the Grand Jury 1689 -1803, ed. Georges Lamoine.
Important Secondary Sources. (12 items)
The association: British extraparliamentary political organization, 1769-1793 - Black, Eugene Charlton, 1963 Book
Parliamentary reform 1640-1832 - Cannon, John Ashton, 1973 Book | Chapters 4 - 6
Culture of Diplomacy: Britain in Europe, c. 1750-1830 - Mori, Jennifer, 2010 Book
Liberty and property: political ideology in eighteenth-century Britain - Dickinson, H T., 1977 Book | Chapters 6 and 7.
The younger Pitt - Ehrman, John, 1969-1996 Book | Vol. II. The Reluctant Transition, 1789 -11796.
Radicalism and revolution in Britain, 1775-1848 - Davis, Michael T., 2000 Book
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The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on the "Glorious Revolution" - Dickinson, H.T., 1976 Article
William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795 - Mori, Jennifer, 1997 Book
London Debating Societies in the 1790s. - Thale, M., 1989 Article
The honest mind: the thought and work of Richard Price - Thomas, David Oswald, 1977 Book
The 1790s: "Visions of Unsullied Bliss" - Porter, Roy Chapter
Week 8: Edmund Burke (12 items)
Principal primary sources. (3 items)
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke, Edmund, Mitchell, L. G., 1993 Book | Core (Must Read) | See library catalogue for other editions.
Gentleman's magazine: or monthly intelligencer Document | Core (Must Read) | For reviews of Burke's Reflections
The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke: vol. 8: The French Revolution 1790-1794 ; edited by L. G. Mitchell ; textual editor for the writings, William B. Todd - Burke, Edmund, Mitchell, L.G., Todd, William Burton, Langford, Paul, date of publication not identified Book | Core (Must Read)
Important Secondary Sources. (9 items)
The Case for Edmund Burke - A.O. Aldridge. Article
Edmund Burke: his life and opinions - Ayling, Stanley, 1988 Book
Edmund Burke and the Monasteries of France. - Beales, D, 2005 Article
Wollstonecraft as a critic of Burke. - Bromwich, David., 1995. Article
English society, 1660-1832: religion, ideology and politics during the ancien regime - Clark,
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J. C. D., 2000 Book
Burke and the nature of politics: the age of the American Revolution - Cone, Carl B., 1957-1964 Book | Vol. II
The rage of Edmund Burke: portrait of an ambivalent conservative - Kramnick, Isaac, 1977 Book
Edmund Burke - Lock, F. P., 1998-2006 Book | Vol. II
The great melody: a thematic biography and commented anthology of Edmund Burke - O'Brien, Conor Cruise, 1993 Book
Week 9: Thomas Paine (9 items)
Principal primary sources. (1 items)
Rights of man: Common sense ; and other political writings - Paine, Thomas, Philp, Mark, 1995 Book | Core (Must Read) | Part I, 1791; Part II 1792.
Important Secondary Sources: (8 items)
Man of reason: the life of Thomas Paine - Aldridge, Alfred Owen, 1960 [c1959] Book
Thomas Paine - Ayer, A. J., 1989 Book
Wollstonecraft as a Critic of Burke. - Bromwich, David, 1995. Article
English society, 1660-1832: religion, ideology and politics during the ancien regime - Clark, J. C. D., 2000 Book
Burke, Paine and the rights of man: a difference of political opinion - Fennessy, R. R., 1963 Book
Republicanism versus Commercial Society: Paine, Burke and the French Revolution Debate. - Claeys, G., 1989 Article
Thomas Paine: apostle of freedom - Fruchtman, Jack, c1994 Book
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A war of ideas: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802 - Macleod, Emma Vincent, 1998 Book
Week 10: Ideological debates: Church and Protestant Dissent (9 items)
Principal primary sources (3 items)
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke, Edmund, Mitchell, L. G., 1993 Book | Core (Must Read)
Rights of man - Paine, T., 1819 Book | Core (Must Read) | Pt. 1, 1791; Pt. II, 1792.
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln at the Triennial Visitation of that Diocese in May and June, 1794 - George Pretyman, 1794 Book | Not available in Library - there is a copy in Canterbury Cathedral Library
Important Secondary Sources: (6 items)
Burke's Religion - Dreyer, F, 1976 Article
The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
Pulpits, politics and public order in England, 1760-1832 - Hole, Robert, 1989 Book
Edmund Burke - Lock, F. P., 1998-2006 Book | Vol. II: 1784 - 1797.
High church prophet: Bishop Samuel Horsley (1733-1806) and the Caroline tradition in the later Georgian church - Mather, F. C., 1992 Book
The Dissenters - Watts, Michael R., 1978-95 Book | Vol. I. From the Reformation to the French Revolution (1978), Part V, chs. 10 & 11.
Week 11: The Impact in Britain of the September massacres (1792) and the regicide (January 1793) (8 items)
Principal primary sources (3 items)
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Collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft - Wollstonecraft, Mary, Wardle, Ralph Martin, 1979 Book | Core (Must Read)
The journals and letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay); ed J Hemlow [et al] - Burney, F., 1972-84 Book | Core (Must Read) | Vol II: 1793, ed. Joyce Hemlow and Althea Douglas.
Gentleman's magazine: or monthly intelligencer Document | Core (Must Read)
Important Secondary Sources: (5 items)
The French revolution in English history - Brown, Philip Anthony, 1965 Book
The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
The shadow of the guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution - Bindman, David, Dawson, Aileen, Jones, Mark, British Museum, 1989 Book
A war of ideas: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802 - Macleod, Emma Vincent, 1998 Book
Representations of revolution, 1789-1820 - Paulson, Ronald, c1983 Book
Week 12: Discussion of Primary Source Commentaries
Week 13: Documentary commentaries
Week 14: Documentary commentaries
Week 15: Tues 1 Feb. (13 items)
Principal primary sources (3 items)
An appeal from the new to the old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament: relative to the reflections on the French Revolution - Burke, Edmund, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read)
The correspondence of Edmund Burke - Burke, Edmund, 1958-1978 Book | Core (Must Read) | Vol VI. July 1789 - December 1791. Vol VII. January 1792 - December 1794.
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Gentleman's magazine: or monthly intelligencer Document | Especially May and June 1791
Important Secondary Sources: (10 items)
Republicanism versus Commercial Society: Paine, Burke and the French Revolution Debate. - Claeys, G., 1989 Article
The younger Pitt - Ehrman, John, 1969-1996 Book | Chapter VI.
Edmund Burke - Lock, F. P., 1998-2006 Book | Vol. 2.
Charles James Fox and the disintegration of the Whig party, 1782-1794 - Mitchell, L G., 1971 Book
Charles James Fox - Mitchell, L. G., 1992 Book
The Whig party in the French Revolution - O'Gorman, F., 1967 Book
Burke's Dagger: Theatricality, Politcs and Print Culture in the 1790's. - Russell, Gillian, 1997 Article
Whig principles and party politics: Earl Fitzwilliam and the Whig Party, 1748-1833 - Smith, E A, 1975 Book
Lord Grey, 1764-1845 - Smith, E. A., 1990 Book
The Pitt-Portland coalition of 1794 and the origins of the 'Tory' Party. - Wilkinson, D., 1998. Article
Week 16: Radicalism in London and the provinces (20 items)
Principal primary sources: (3 items)
Rights of man: Common sense ; and other political writings - Paine, Thomas, Philp, Mark, 1995 Book | Core (Must Read)
Collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft - Wollstonecraft, Mary, Wardle, Ralph Martin, 1979 Book | Core (Must Read) | Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, December 1792 - April 1795.
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Political writings - Wollstonecraft, Mary, Todd, Janet, Wollstonecraft, Mary, Wollstonecraft, Mary, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1993 Book | Core (Must Read) | 'An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution.'
Important Secondary Sources: (17 items)
Gentleman radical: a life of John Horne Tooke, 1736-1812 - Bewley, Christina, Bewley, David K., 1998 Book
Riots and community politics in England and Wales, 1790-1810 - Bohstedt, J., 1983 Book
Wollstonecraft as a Critic of Burke. - Bromwich, David., 1995. Article
Liberty and property: political ideology in eighteenth-century Britain - Dickinson, H T., 1977 Book | Chapter 7.
British radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815 - Dickinson, H T., 1985 Book
Popular Radicalism and Popular Protest, 1789 - 1815. - Stevenson, John Chapter
The politics of the people in eighteenth-century Britain - Dickinson, H. T., 1995 Book
The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
Crowds and history: mass phenomena in English towns, 1790-1835 - Harrison, Mark, 1988 Book
For the cause of truth: Radicalism in London, 1796-1821 - Hone, J A., 1982 Book
A war of ideas: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802 - Macleod, Emma Vincent, 1998 Book
Experience and identity: Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1800 - Money, John, 1977 Book
The French Revolution and British popular politics - Philp, Mark, 2002 Book
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English radicals and reformers: 1760-1848 - Royle, Edward, Walvin, James, 1982 Book
The Bread Crisis in Britain, 1795-96. - Stern, W.M., 1964 Article
Food Riots in England, 1792 - 1818. - Stevenson, J. Chapter
The making of the English working class - Thompson, E. P., 1963 Book
Week 17: The Loyalist responses to the French Revolution (15 items)
Principal primary sources (4 items)
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke, Edmund, Mitchell, L. G., 1993 Book | Core (Must Read)
The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. in Two Volumes. ... Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Volume 1 of 2 - Multiple Contributor, 2010-06-01 Book | Core (Must Read) | Both Volumes not available in Library
Tales for the common people, and other cheap repository tracts - More, Hannah, MacDonald Shaw, Clare, 2002 Book | Core (Must Read) | The History of Tom White the Postilion, Parts 1 and 2; and The Riot: or, Half a loaf is better than no bread.
A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln: Visitation ... 1812. By George Tomline - Tomline, George Pretyman, Harrison, Church of England, 1812 Book
Important Secondary Sources: (11 items)
John Reeve's Prosecution for Seditious Libel, 1795-6: A Study in Political Cynicism. - Beedell, A.V., 1993. Article
For king, constitution and country: the English Loyalists and the French Revolution - Dozier, R R., 1983 Book
Liberty and property: political ideology in eighteenth-century Britain - Dickinson, H T., 1977 Book | Chapter 8.
William Pitt and the Origins of the Loyalist Association Movement of 1792. - Duffy, M., 1996. Article
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The younger Pitt - Duffy, Michael, 2000 Book | ch. 6
Pulpits, politics and public order in England, 1760-1832 - Hole, Robert, 1989 Book
Hannah Moore on iterature and Propaganda, 1788 - 1799. - Hole, R., 2000 Article
Representations of revolution, 1789-1820 - Paulson, Ronald, c1983 Book
Vulgar Conservatism, 1792 - 3. - Philp, M., 1995. Article
From Jacobite to Conservative: reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 - Sack, James J., 1993 Book | Chs. 2, 5 and 6.
Conservative Political Thought in Britain in Response to the French Revolutiion. - Schofield, T.P., 1986. Article
Week 18: Tues 22 Feb (14 items)
Principal primary sources. (4 items)
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln, at the Triennial Visitation of That Diocese in May and June 1794. by George Pretyman - Multiple Contributors, See Notes, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read) | Not Available in Library - Available in Canterbury Cathederal Library
The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. in Two Volumes. ... Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Volume 1 of 2 - Multiple Contributor, 2010-06-01 Book | Core (Must Read) | Not available in Library both available from Amazon
Tales for the common people, and other cheap repository tracts - More, Hannah, MacDonald Shaw, Clare, 2002 Book | Core (Must Read) | The History of Tome White the Postillion, Parts 1 and 2; and The Riot: or, Half a loaf is better than no bread.
A Letter to the Church of England, Pointing Out Some Popular Errors of Bad Consequence. by an Old Friend and Servant of the Church - Jones, William, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read) | Not Available in Library
Important Secondary Sources: (10 items)
The spirit of despotism: invasions of privacy in the 1790s - Barrell, John, 2006
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Popular Loyalism and Popular Violence in the North-West of England, 1790 -1800. - Booth, A., 1983. Article
Stress and stability in late eighteenth-century Britain: reflections on the British avoidance of revolution - Christie, I R., 1984 Book
The English Volunteer Movement of the French Wars. - Cookson, J.E., 1989 Article
An Aspect of Pitt's 'Terror': Prosecutions for Sedition during the 1790' - Emsley, C., 1981. Article
Repression, 'Terror' and the Rule of Law in England During the Decade of the French Revolution - Emsley, C., 1985 Article
William Pitt, William Miles and the French Revolution - Evans, H.V., 1970 Article
The British volunteer movement, 1794-1814 - Gee, Austin, 2003 Book
Revolutionary Britannia?: reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 - Royle, Edward, 2000 Book | The introduction to this work is in your course reader
The Volunteer movement as an anti-revolutionary force, 1793-1801 - Western, J.R., 1956 Article
Week 19: The British monarchy: the apothesis of George III (15 items)
Principal primary sources (4 items)
Funeral Sermon for Louis XIV - 1793 Book | Out of Print: Not available in Library
Reflections on the revolution in France - Burke, E., 1910 Book
The rights of man - Paine, Thomas, [1915] Book | Part I, 1791. Part II, 1792.
Peace and union recommended to the associated bodies of republicans and anti-republicans - Frend, William, [2011? Book
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Important secondary sources (11 items)
Imagining the king's death: figurative treason, fantasies of regicide 1793-1796 - Barrell, John, 2000 Book
George III: America's last king - Black, Jeremy, 2006 Book
The Apotheosis of George III: Loyalty, Royalty and the British Nation - Colley, L., 1984 Article
Britons: forging the nation, 1707-1837 - Colley, Linda, American Council of Learned Societies, 1992 Book | Chapter 5
George III: an essay in monarchy - Ditchfield, Grayson M., 2002 Book | Chapter 6
A war of ideas: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802 - Macleod, Emma Vincent, 1998 Book
The British monarchy and the French Revolution - Morris, Marilyn, 1998 Book
William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795 - Mori, Jennifer, 1997 Book
The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 - Poole, Steve, 2000 Book | Out of Print - Not available in Library
From Jacobite to Conservative: reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 - Sack, James J., 1993 Book | Chapter 5
Conservative Political Thought in Britain in Response to the French Revolution - Schofield, T.P., 1986 Article
Week 20: Dissertation session: the structure of a dissertation, topics and questions
Week 21: Dissertation session: short individual presentations
Week 22: Potential revolution in Britain? A revolutionary threat? (17 items)
Principal primary sources (3 items)
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State trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanours: compiledby T.B. Howell and W. Cobbett - Cobbett, William, Howell, Thomas Bayly Document | with particular reference to the trials of Thomas Hardy and John Thelwall, 1794
The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. in Two Volumes. ... Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Volume 1 of 2 - Multiple Contributor, 2010-06-01 Book | Core (Must Read) | Not available in Library both available from Amazon
A Sermon, Preached at the Methodist Chapel, in Hull, on Wednesday, the 7th of March, 1798, Being the Day Appointed for a National Fast. by Joseph Benson. the Second Edition - Benson, Joseph, 2010 Book | Out of Print - Item not available in Library
Important secondary sources (14 items)
Stress and stability in late eighteenth-century Britain: reflections on the British avoidance of revolution - Christie, I R., 1984 Book
The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
The law of libel and the limits of repression 1795-96 - Harling, P., 2005 Article
Hannah More on Literature and Propaganda, 1788-1799 - Hole, R., 2000 Article
Representations of revolution, 1789-1820 - Paulson, Ronald, c1983 Book
Revolutionary Britannia?: reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 - Royle, Edward, 2000 Book
Resisting Napoleon: the British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815 - Philp, Mark, c2006 Book
The Scottish people and the French Revolution - Harris, Bob, 2008 Book
Scotland in the age of the French Revolution - Harris, Bob Book
The Bread crisis in Britain, 1795-96 - Stern, W.M., 1964 Article
Threats of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 - Thomis, Malcolm I., Holt, Peter, 1977
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The making of the English working class - Thompson, E. P., 1991 Book
Insurrection: the British experience, 1795-1803 - Wells, R., 1983 Book
Wretched faces: famine in wartime England 1793-1801 - Wells, Roger A E., 1988 Book
Week 23: Potential Revolution in Britain? with a focus on the implications of the Irish rebellion of 1798 (17 items)
Principal primary reading (2 items)
Gentleman's magazine (London, England : 1736) Journal
Times (London, England : 1788) Journal
Important secondary sources (15 items)
The fall and rise of the Irish nation: the catholic question, 1690-1830 - Bartlett, Thomas Book | Out of Print - Not available from Library
The passing of the Irish Act of Union: a study in Parliamentary politics - Bolton, G C., 1966 Book
Partners in revolution: the United Irishmen and France - Elliott, M., 1982 Book
French Subversion in Britain in the French Revolution - Elliot, M. Chapter
Wolfe Tone: prophet of Irish independence - Elliott, Marianne, 1989 Book
Burke, Ireland and Revolution - Cullen, L., 1992 Article
The Irish Act of Union, 1800: bicentennial essays - Brown, Michael, Geoghegan, Patrick M., Kelly, James, 2003 Book
The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution - Goodwin, A., 1979 Book
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Irish public opinion, 1750-1800 - McDowell, R B., [1944] Book
Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution, 1760-1801 - McDowell, R B., 1979 Book
A new history of Ireland: under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, 4: Eighteenth-century Ireland 1691-1800 ; edited by T.W. Moody, W.E. Vaughan - Moody, T. W., Vaughan, W. E., date of publication not identified Book
The year of liberty: the story of the great Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Pakenham, Thomas, 1969 Book
Nationalism and popular protest in Ireland - Philpin, Charles H. E., 1987 Book
Orangeism in Ireland and Britain - Senior, H., 1966 Book
'And how did they pass the Union?' Secret Service Expenditure in Ireland, 1799-1804 - Wilkinson, D., 1997 Article
Week 24: Practice Examination (optional)
Possible extra session: The impact of the French Revolution upon Scotland (14 items)
Principal primary sources (3 items)
Gentleman's magazine (London, England : 1736) Journal
The Scottish Reform Movement and Charles Grey. 1792-94: some fresh correspondence - Hughes, E., 1956 Article
'Trial of Thomas Fyshe Palmer' and 'Trial of Thomas Muir' Article
Important secondary sources (11 items)
Scottish-English Connections in British Radicalism in the 1790' - Harris, B., 2005 Article
Muir of Huntershill:A Scottish Patriot's Adventures Around the World - Bewley, Christina,
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1981 Book | Out of Print - Not available in Library
Scotland since 1707: the rise of an industrial society - Campbell, R. H, 1965 Book
Parliamentary reform 1640-1832 - Cannon, John Ashton, 1973 Book | Chapter 5
Scotland, 1689 to the present - Ferguson, William, 1968 Book
Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville 1742-1811: political manager of Scotland, statesman,administrator of British India - Furber, Holden, 1931 Book
Scotland in the age of the French Revolution - Harris, Bob Book | Out of Print - Not available in Library
Integration, enlightenment, and industrialization: Scotland 1746-1832 - Lenman, B., 1981 Book
Scotland and the French Revolution - Meikle, H W., 1969 Book
A century of the Scottish people 1830-1950 - Smout, T C., 1986 Book
The Treason Trials, 1794 - Wharam, Alan, 1992 Book | Out of Print - Not available in Library
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