Cobbett's

Cobbett's Political Register led radical opposition to the government during the crisis year of 1816.

Letter 305 2009

Coinciding with the appearance of Cobbett's two-penny Political Register, there emerged a wave of protest songs within the farming and labouring class.

A Bloomfield Chronology 2009

In all honesty this is the best writing in the book, apart perhaps from an extraordinary visionary section where the hero visits the site of the long abandoned London - it is as though Cobbett's Great Wen has burst.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Under these titles, the periodical modeled itself after William Cobbett's two-penny Political Register, which took advantage of a legal loophole allowing publications to avoid tax by not printing news.

Annotations To The Text of _Wat Tyler_ 2007

Anyone disposed to take him too seriously on this subject might ponder Cobbett's own unguarded remarks on Wilberforce's partiality for 'fat lazy Negroes' over the English peasantry and ask whether Cobbett's sentimentality about some aspects of British identity had not corrupted his judgement in other respects.

'Freedom and Slavery' - Wilberforce Lecture 2007 2007

In inspiration, it is part Cobbett's Rural Rides, part Eliot's homage to "unhistoric acts".

Reading between Gordon's lines 2007

In inspiration, it is part Cobbett's Rural Rides, part Eliot's homage to "unhistoric acts".

Reading between Gordon's lines 2007

Anyone disposed to take him too seriously on this subject might ponder Cobbett's own unguarded remarks on Wilberforce's partiality for 'fat lazy Negroes' over the English peasantry and ask whether Cobbett's sentimentality about some aspects of British identity had not corrupted his judgement in other respects.

'Freedom and Slavery' - Wilberforce Lecture 2007 2007

In inspiration, it is part Cobbett's Rural Rides, part Eliot's homage to "unhistoric acts".

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

Cobbett's criticisms can be set aside for a start: Cobbett was in many ways a great figure in English political history, but he was a good hater and saw Wilberforce as an enemy of the simple pleasures of ordinary folk and of the proper self-sufficiency of the British economy.

'Freedom and Slavery' - Wilberforce Lecture 2007 2007