Percy Bysshe Shelley

Born on this day in 1796, the Irish Chartist Feargus O'Connor was known as "the lion of freedom" “Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you- Ye are many – they are few.” So went Percy Bysshe Shelley’s rallying cry to the British working classes after the in 1819.

On this day in 1820, a Radical Insurrection swept across ScotlandWhen the Napoleonic Wars came to an end in 1815, Radical politics was at a low ebb across the British Isles.