Outputs (8)

The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850 (2018)
Book Chapter

Acts and marks of commemoration, from anniversary dinners to monuments and statues, were vital components in the production of English democratic culture in the ‘age of revolutions’. But strategies for remembering were not always consensual and refor... Read More about The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850.

Thunderer, recluse or apostate? Interruptions and continuities in the life of a Jacobin fox (2010)
Journal Article

An essay in review, critically reconsidering the political writings of John Thelwall (1764-1834), radical democrat, republican, political theorist, pioeer speech therapist and Romantic poet.

John Thelwall: Radical romantic and acquitted felon (2009)
Book

Not precedents to be followed but examples to be weighed: John Thelwall and the Jacobin sense of the past (2009)
Book Chapter

Essay critically examining the historical writing and historiographical theory of the English radical Jacobin, John Thelwall (1764-1834), and contextualising it within English 18th century historical practice and methodology.

The character and reputation of an acquitted felon (2009)
Book Chapter

Introductory essay to edited collection on the life and work of John Thelwall (1764-1834).

Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight (2008)
Book Chapter

A short catalogue essay on the critical reception of British moonlight painting c.1720-1860.

'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol (2007)
Journal Article

During the 1730s, Bristol acquired an unenviable reputation as a city in which sodomy was endemic and rarely punished by the civil power. Although the cause lay partly in difficulties experienced in securing convictions, the resolve of magistrates wa... Read More about 'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol.

'Till our liberties be secure': Popular sovereignty and public space in Bristol, 1780-1850 (1999)
Journal Article

Struggles over the symbolic ownership of Bristol's open spaces were often influenced by association with conflicts between mercantile elites and 'the people' over the definition and nature of civic identity. Shifting political and cultural readings o... Read More about 'Till our liberties be secure': Popular sovereignty and public space in Bristol, 1780-1850.