Le Radicalisme Anglais et la Révolution Française

Although English radicalism originated before the French Revolution there can be no doubt that the dramatic events in France from 1789 onwards had a profound effect on the rise and fall of English radicalism in the 1790s. There has been much recent research on this topic and this essay surveys and assesses the work produced on the primary sources and printed propaganda, the general and regional studies, the overseas links, the biographies of leading radicals, radical ideology and radical culture, the threat of revolution and the government suppression of radicalism.