Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has written extensively on the history of radicalism from the 19th century onwards and is the editor of (with Jonathan Davis), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2017). He writes regularly on politics for The Conversation and other publications and has commented on current affairs for, amongst other outlets, The Observer and Times Radio.

Mentioned in History Today, July 2009

• Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Enter the Claimant; 2 Going to Law; 3 The Courtroom; 4 Stumping the Country; 5 The Great Trial at Bar; 6 The Magna Carta Association; 7 The People's Candidate; 8 Tichborne Radicalism; 9 After Kenealy; 10 Spectacle; 11 Singing the Claimant; 12 The Freeborn Briton; 13 Meoldrama; 14 Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has written extensively on the history of radicalism from the 19th century onwards and is the editor of (with Jonathan Davis), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2017). He writes regularly on politics for The Conversation and other publications and has commented on current affairs for, amongst other outlets, The Observer and Times Radio.

Mentioned in History Today, July 2009

• Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Enter the Claimant; 2 Going to Law; 3 The Courtroom; 4 Stumping the Country; 5 The Great Trial at Bar; 6 The Magna Carta Association; 7 The People's Candidate; 8 Tichborne Radicalism; 9 After Kenealy; 10 Spectacle; 11 Singing the Claimant; 12 The Freeborn Briton; 13 Meoldrama; 14 Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index