STUART ANDREWS is the author of five books including The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution.

'In the great debate on the French Revolution, few characters were more vilified than 'Gunpowder Joe', the Unitarian, Joseph Priestley. In this lucid study, Stuart Andrews looks not only at the famous Priestley but at the nation-wide network to which he belonged. He guides us expertly through the Unitarian literature of protest, emphasising the long-standing religious convictions and grievances which fed a political rhetoric which Burke and others dismissed as 'Jacobinical'.' - John Walsh, Jesus College, Oxford.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Unequal Toleration PART I: GRAINS OF GUNPOWDER Denying the Trinity Opposing Subscription Predicting the Millennium PART II: PULPIT-POLITICS Essex Street: Lindsey, Disney and Belsham Gravel Pit and Old Jewry: Kippis, Price and Priestley Fasts and Thanksgivings PART III: UNDERMINING ESTABLISHMENTS Censuring Pitt Challenging Burke Campaigning for Peace PART IV: SPARKS OF SEDITION National Networks The Midlands and the North Norwich, Bristol and the South West Scottish Convict, Irish Exile PART V: EXPLOSIVE ECHOES 'Jacobin' Journalism Confronting Napoleon Conclusion: Transatlantic Connections List of abbreviations used in the notes Notes Bibliography

STUART ANDREWS is the author of five books including The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution.

'In the great debate on the French Revolution, few characters were more vilified than 'Gunpowder Joe', the Unitarian, Joseph Priestley. In this lucid study, Stuart Andrews looks not only at the famous Priestley but at the nation-wide network to which he belonged. He guides us expertly through the Unitarian literature of protest, emphasising the long-standing religious convictions and grievances which fed a political rhetoric which Burke and others dismissed as 'Jacobinical'.' - John Walsh, Jesus College, Oxford.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Unequal Toleration PART I: GRAINS OF GUNPOWDER Denying the Trinity Opposing Subscription Predicting the Millennium PART II: PULPIT-POLITICS Essex Street: Lindsey, Disney and Belsham Gravel Pit and Old Jewry: Kippis, Price and Priestley Fasts and Thanksgivings PART III: UNDERMINING ESTABLISHMENTS Censuring Pitt Challenging Burke Campaigning for Peace PART IV: SPARKS OF SEDITION National Networks The Midlands and the North Norwich, Bristol and the South West Scottish Convict, Irish Exile PART V: EXPLOSIVE ECHOES 'Jacobin' Journalism Confronting Napoleon Conclusion: Transatlantic Connections List of abbreviations used in the notes Notes Bibliography

STUART ANDREWS is the author of five books including The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution.

'In the great debate on the French Revolution, few characters were more vilified than 'Gunpowder Joe', the Unitarian, Joseph Priestley. In this lucid study, Stuart Andrews looks not only at the famous Priestley but at the nation-wide network to which he belonged. He guides us expertly through the Unitarian literature of protest, emphasising the long-standing religious convictions and grievances which fed a political rhetoric which Burke and others dismissed as 'Jacobinical'.' - John Walsh, Jesus College, Oxford.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Unequal Toleration PART I: GRAINS OF GUNPOWDER Denying the Trinity Opposing Subscription Predicting the Millennium PART II: PULPIT-POLITICS Essex Street: Lindsey, Disney and Belsham Gravel Pit and Old Jewry: Kippis, Price and Priestley Fasts and Thanksgivings PART III: UNDERMINING ESTABLISHMENTS Censuring Pitt Challenging Burke Campaigning for Peace PART IV: SPARKS OF SEDITION National Networks The Midlands and the North Norwich, Bristol and the South West Scottish Convict, Irish Exile PART V: EXPLOSIVE ECHOES 'Jacobin' Journalism Confronting Napoleon Conclusion: Transatlantic Connections List of abbreviations used in the notes Notes Bibliography