"The Radical Rising: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820 " Topic

"Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordinary heroism of its leaders, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, and the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state"

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Mostly skilled weavers objecting to losing their rather good living to the forces of industrialisation. They had virtually no support and were crushed a few miles from where I was born on Cathkin Braes outside Glasgow. Any book on 'Radical Scotland' needs to be taken with a big pinch of salt, the Scottish left like to 'big it up' but when their heroes – like MacLean – actually put their policies to the voters they were generally rejected.