Radical Spaces Radical Spaces Venues of popular politics in London, 1790–c. 1845 CHRISTINA PAROLIN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY E PRESS E PRESS Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email:
[email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/radical_spaces_citation.html National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Parolin, Christina. Title: Radical spaces : venues of popular politics in london, 1790 -1845 / Christina Parolin. ISBN: 9781921862007 (pbk.) 9781921862014 (eBook) Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Radicalism--Great Britain--18th century. Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century. Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century. Dewey Number: 320.53 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Cover image: Architectural view of the Surrey Rotunda, Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Blackfriars Road, London. Artist and date unknown. Copyright Wellcome Library, London. Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2010 ANU E Press Contents Acknowledgments vii Illustrations ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. ‘Honourable House of Blasphemers’: The radical public of Newgate in the early nineteenth century 17 2. ‘Bastilles of despotism’: Radical resistance in the Coldbath Fields House of Correction, 1798–1830 49 3. The ‘She-Champion of Impiety’: Female radicalism and political crime in early nineteenth-century England 83 4. Radicalism and reform at the ‘Gate of Pandemonium’: The Crown and Anchor tavern in visual culture, 1790–1820 105 5.