Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul Routledge
Preface
Introduction
1. Luddites and Blanketeers
2. The Road to Peterloo
3. The Massacre
4. The Reckoning
5. Captain Swing and the Rural War
6. The Reform Riots and the Battle of Bristol
7. The Merthyr Rising
8. The Chartists and the Newport Insurrection
9. The Chartists and the Plug Plot Riots
10. Cunninghame Graham and Bloody Sunday
11. The Featherstone Riot
12. The Suffragettes and Black Friday
13. Churchill and the Troops
14. The Police Strike
15. Mosley and the Battle of Cable Street
16. The Notting Hill Riots
17. From Student Protest to Blair Peach
18. Brixton, Toxteth and Broadwater Farm
19. The Battle of Orgreave
20. The Poll Tax Riot
21. The Return of Race Riots
22. Stop the War and G8
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ian Hernon is a journalist and Westminster lobby correspondent. He is the author of Assassin!: 200 Years of British Political Murder (Pluto, 2007) and Riot!: Civil Insurrection From Peterloo to the Present Day (Pluto, 2006). He reports for the Sunday Times and Daily Express, Glasgow Evening Times, and many other newspapers. Ian's previous books on 19th Century British history include Britain's Forgotten Wars (Sutton, 2003).

Reviews

'The latest outstanding oeuvre from the prolific pen of Liverpool Echo political correspondent Ian Hernon'
*The Guardian*

'A beautifully written and graphic account of civil insurrection in this country from Peterloo to the present day - a very fine read'
*The House Magazine*

'His account of the build up to Peterloo and the aftermath is stirring stuff ... written with the pace and detail you would expect from an experienced journalist.'
*Sarah Williams, BBC History*

'This fascinating history of riots includes the reform riots of 1831, the violence of the Chartists and the Suffragettes, the lawlessness that occurred during the bizarre police strike of 1919. It ends with the Stop the War march in London in February 2003, Britain's biggest ever demonstration and, in Hernon's view, one of the most futile protests of modern times'
*Ian Pindar, The Guardian*

'A well-written, thought provoking and sometimes moving account of rioting and social disturbance'
*Alex Louton, Morning Star Online*

'A timely reminder that there is nothing new in rioting as a catalyst for political and social change. Here are the great battles which, for better or worse, helped to create our form of Parliamentary democracy and which changed the face of Britain'
*Gallery News, House of Commons*

'A useful primer on the civil insurrections which helped Britain lumber towards equitable political representations. He has picked out key and often overlooked episodes in working class history'
*Tribune*