Jubilating - Peter Linebaugh Jubilating; or, How the Atlantic Working Class Used the Biblical Jubilee Against Capitalism, With Some Success. An article by Peter Linebaugh of…
Mary Wollstonecraft: Two sexes, yet one truth - Liz Willis Mary Wollstonecraft had few illusions: women's emancipation would be as difficult to live up to as…
Edinburgh's Other Tattoo - Ellis D. Hayes The story of Bowed Joseph Smith, notorious cobbler and rabble rouser in Edinburgh in the 1780s. Bowed Joseph is said to have returned to support…
The Delivery of Newgate 6 June 1780 An entertaining account of The Gordon Riots, 18th Century black culture in London - and the invention of toothbrushes and locks. By Midnight…
A Letter to Boston's "Radical Americans" From a “Loose and Disorderly” New Yorker, Autumn 1770 Midnight Notes on the multi-ethnic rebellion at the roots of the Boston Massacre on…
Class struggles, climate change, and the origins of modern agriculture Class conflicts and colonial expansion in the context of the Little Ice Age lead to the emergence of…
Customs in common - E. P. Thompson Eighteenth-century Britain saw a profound distancing between the culture of the patricians and the plebs. E. P. Thompson explains why in this…
1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History, Noel Ignatiev
The many headed hydra: Sailors, slaves, and the atlantic working class in the eighteenth century - Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh Article on class struggle and compositon in the period leading up to and during the…
