Mary Wollstonecraft

The man who was killed for trying to make the French Revolution even more radical...

What can Mill's flawed vision of freedom teach us about the radical struggle? Born today in 1806, John Stuart Mill didn’t have a normal English childhood… He was speaking Ancient Greek at three years-old and Latin by the age of eight.

"Informed opposition to apartheid...

How one pamphlet infuriated the entire British establishment Long before the in the US, there was the trial of Thomas Paine in England. But in the 1790s, the spectre haunting the British Establishment was republicanism, not socialism.

Born today in 1770, Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet of Bramcote, was a radical you might not have expected. The decades either side of 1800 – the so-called 'Age of Revolutions' – were a time of closed ranks for the European aristocracy.

For a progressive company from Wales, the radical history of our home is fundamental. In 1980, the of ’s A People's History of the United States was published.

It takes a brave person to stand up and back a revolution. Sometimes it takes an even braver one to call out its weaknesses.