1. Ancestors of the Proletariat
   Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1949
   After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
   
2. The Blackest Streets
   The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   
3. Britain # Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers# Organisation
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Links to writings from the history of the British Isles, relevant to the development of socialist ideas and Marxism.
4. Chartism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
5. Commonwealth of Thieves
   The Improbable Birth of Australia
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
   
6. The Condition of the Working Class in England
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1845
   
7. Cromwell and the Levellers
   Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1949
   Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
   
8. Decline of the English Murder
   And Other Essays
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   A collection of essays by George Orwell.
9. Diggers
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
10. The End of Parliamentary Socialism
    From New Left to New Labour
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
11. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
12. English coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Describes the origins, the popularity, and the decline of the English Coffeehouse.
13. The English Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
14. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
15. General Strike of 1842
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
16. George Orwell: A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A biography of George Orwell.
17. The Great Transformation
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
18. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
19. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
20. Hill, Christopher
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
21. Inclosure Acts
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
22. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
23. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
24. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
25. Lilburne, John
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
26. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
27. Luddites
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested # often by destroying mechanized looms # against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
28. The Magna Carta
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1215
    The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
    
29. Midland Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
30. Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    
31. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
    Resource Type: Book
    
32. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
33. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
34. The People's Charter
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1839
    The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
    
35. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
36. The People's Petition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1838
    The Chartist Petition of 1838.
    
37. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
38. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
39. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
40. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
41. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Social Democracy and After
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    
42. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
43. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
44. To the Ends of the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    A history of Scotland's diaspora, and a critique of some of the myths that surround it.
45. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
46. United Kingdom general strike of 1926
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
47. Victorian People
    A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
48. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
49. Winter of Discontent
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A term used to describe the British winter of 1978#1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
50. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    

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