Alison Morgan. Ballads and songs of Peterloo.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 – ‘Rise Britons, rise now from your slumber’: the revolutionary call to arms

2 – ‘Ye English warriors’: radical nationalism and the true patriot

3 – ‘Base brat of reform’: the victimisation of mother and child

4 – ‘Your memorials shall survive the grave’: elegy and remembrance

5 – ‘Those true sons of Mars’: chivalry, cowardice and the power of satire

6 – ‘Freeman stand, or freeman die’: liberty and slavery

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