Shelley

John Clare is now one of England's best-loved poets, but for a long time he was almost entirely forgotten The literary canon has always had its gaps and prejudices.

They're incredibly relevant to today's political and economic landscape - but who exactly were the Luddites? What is “progress”? Is it new technology, making daily life more efficient than ever before? Machines that can do our own jobs for us? Maybe.

Above: Our Reflections on the Peterloo massacre The above verse comes at the end of Percy Shelley’s 1819 poem 'The Masque of Anarchy'. The aristocrat-turned-radical wrote it as a funeral march for the British working class murdered by police at the .