Francis Place's autobiography presents a vivid and readable account
of the early life of one of the best-known radical reformers of the
early 19th century. The publication of Place's manuscript for the
first time in book form is a landmark in the expanding field of
studies in artisan self-consciousness of the pre-Victorian era. The
book will be of obvious value to those interested in the origins of
the Reform Movement and especially of the controversial reform
group, the London Corresponding society. In his description of the
rise and fall of the LCS and of the men who composed it and other
reform groups. Place brings to life the human feelings and failings
of the working-class democratic movement, and his own lifelong
attempts to 'promote the welfare of the working class'.
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