"Gareth Stedman Jones’s essay on Chartism, which is included in this book, inspired a generation of British social historians to take language, ideas, and beliefs seriously. It showed that the Chartists remained hugely indebted to republican ideas; they were not, as Engels argued, modern and class conscious socialists. In my book, I then argue that the making of British socialism occurred later in the period from 1880-1918."

Recommended by Mark Bevir, Professor of Political Science and author of The Making of British Socialism.