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The Fight for Scottish Democracy - Rebellion and Reform in 1820 (Paperback)
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The Fight for Scottish Democracy - Rebellion and Reform in 1820 (Paperback)
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Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird,
were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820.
Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany
Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and
nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused
to reform it. This 'Radical War' was the culmination of five years
of unsuccessful mass petitioning of Westminster by working people
in Scotland and England. The contempt and intransigence of the Tory
government forced an escalation in tactics, and on Easter Monday of
1820, the call for a general strike was answered throughout the
western counties of Scotland. Their demands were threefold: the
vote for all men, annual parliaments and equal constituencies.
Coupled with an armed rebellion, the strike was met by the full
military might of the British state; hundreds were arrested and
imprisoned without trial, while hundreds more fled the country.
This Scottish general strike and insurrection is a little-known
chapter of British history and yet remains an immensely important
one in the long fight for democracy. In The Fight for Scottish
Democracy, Murray Armstrong brings these events dramatically to
life.
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