English radicalism in the twentieth century: A distinctive politics? (Manchester University Press)

'English radicalism' has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism - its beliefs, practice and importance - in the twentieth century. All English radicals believed, for both moral and political reasons, that fundamental change was needed if a truly free, equal and democratic society were to be achieved. But how was such change to be achieved and what was the appropriate balance between working in and through parliamentary and other established institutions, and extra-parliamentary social movement activism?