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The Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450: A Sourcebook
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Revolt at Ratcliffe's Rags
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The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650
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Following the Levellers, Volume One: Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649
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John Lilburne and the Levellers: Reappraising the Roots of English Radicalism 400 Years On
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Following the Levellers, Volume Two: English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688
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Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion
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Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
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The English Levellers
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The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist
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The Risings Of The Luddites
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Yorkshire's Flying Pickets in the 1984–85 Miners' Strike: Based on the Diary of Silverwood Miner Bruce Wilson
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Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England: From Southcott to Socialism
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The Naval Mutinies of 1797
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The Great Mutiny
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Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685 - 1720
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The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 16)
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1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
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The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688–1788
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George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681–1731: A Study of Jacobitism
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1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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Monmouth's Rebels: The Road to Sedgemoor 1685
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Last Popular Rebellion
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1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt
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The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381
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When Adam Delved and Eve Span: A History of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, Materiality and the Landscape
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Tudor Rebellions
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The Commotion Time: Tudor Rebellions of 1549
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The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s
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Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
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The Nine Years War 1593-1603: O'neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution
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Rebellion and Riot: Popular Disorder in England During the Reign of Edward VI
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An Unlikely Rebel: Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising 1549
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire (China Program Books)
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Great Mutiny: India 1857
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At Swim, Two Boys
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The Easter Rebellion
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The Easter Rebellion 1916: A New Illustrated History
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The Glen o'Weeping
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A Lost Lady of Old Years
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Almond, Wild Almond
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The Flight of the Heron
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The Gleam in the North
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The Dark Mile (The Jacobite Trilogy #3)
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BABYLONdon
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Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance
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The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dŵr: England, France and the Welsh Rebellion in the Late Middle Ages
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Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
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The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath
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A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries the Men and Women Who Fought for Our Freedom
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A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion: Greenwood Milestones in African American History [2 volumes]
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1798: A Bicentennial Perspective
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The 1798 Rebellion: An Illustrated History
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
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Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
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Maya Revolt and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Latin American Realities
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Riots, Rising And Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth Century England
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The Year of the French
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The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster
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Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200–1425
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The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt
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The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648-1652 (Revolutions in the Modern World series)
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Poll Tax Rebellion
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Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax
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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 (The Middle Ages Series)
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Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348–1434
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The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective
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The Luddite Rebellion
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Writings of the Luddites
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The Last Rising: The Newport Chartist Insurrection of 1839
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The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working Class Radicalism and Culture 1830-1860
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Barnaby Rudge
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Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England
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The Merthyr Rising
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Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England
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