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. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. Decline of the English Murder
   And Other Essays
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   A collection of essays by George Orwell.
6. The End of Parliamentary Socialism
   From New Left to New Labour
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   
7. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
   Resource Type: Book
   
8. The Fight for Freedom for Women
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   
9. George Orwell: A Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A biography of George Orwell.
10. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
14. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
15. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
16. 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.
    
17. Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    
18. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
19. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
20. The People's Charter
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1839
    The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
    
21. 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.
22. The People's Petition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1838
    The Chartist Petition of 1838.
    
23. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
24. 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.
    
25. 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.
    
26. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
27. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
28. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
29. Victorian People
    A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
30. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
31. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    

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