'A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.' --Martin Luther King Riot! covers, with a reporter's eye, almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain, and gives a voice to some of the remarkable men and women involved. Ian Hernon shows that resistance played a part, not always beneficially, in the creation of proper parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, the trade union movement, the rights of immigrants and civil liberties. All of these, it can be argued, are under renewed attack today. Hernon tells the story of a largely unacknowledged tradition of violent protest in Britain, from the martyrs of Peterloo to the drug-fuelled street violence of today. Riot! charts how the struggles of individual groups of workers turned into a broader campaign for electoral reform and justice; how excessive use of state force failed to extinguish the fires; how the trade unions pressed for wider social justice; how Thatcherism reversed decades of gradual reform and sparked social turmoil; and how a "good" riot played a part in her downfall. Finishing with an account of the anti-globalisation movement and G8 protests, this lively book shows how the ugly roar of a mob has perhaps done more to change society than measured parliamentary debate.

Riot!: Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day

History

Hernon, Ian

Europe

Pluto Press

-- Exposes Britain's secret history of political killings, murder and intrigue -- For as long as the world has had rulers, there have been plots to assassinate those at the top. Violent death is usually associated with dictatorships and tinpot regimes. F

Assassin!: 200 Years of British Political Murder

For as long as the world has had rulers, there have been plots to assassinate those at the top.  Violent death is usually associated with dictatorships and tinpot regimes. Few people know that Britain also has a history of political assassination. This book brings to life the forgotten story of assassination-successful and unsuccessful-over the last 200 years in Britain.From prime ministers and politicians to princes, lords and officials of all kinds, Britain’s assassination attempts cover a wide variety of figures in some key moments of history. Hernon examines the motivations of the assassins-from political ideologies to simple mental instability. He shows how most attempts originated from isolated individuals or minority groups, rather than broad political will.Ultimately, Hernon argues,assassination remains the resort of the outsider with poor political judgment. Assassination attempts have never-in this country-brought about the changes the assassin wishes. They have often served to undermine civil liberties. But they do provide a fascinating account of how the will of the individual has occasionally and dramatically intervened into the lives of those in power.

Examines wars, battles, conflicts, and rebellions in the British Empire, exposing the "Pax Britannica" as a myth, and pointing out that during the 1800s there was not one month in which British troops were not engaged somewhere in the world. Describes the background and root causes of the various conflicts, military details of how they proceeded, and their aftermath. Conflicts described include the 1803-5 Kandy War in Sri Lanka, the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion, the 1845-6 Flagstaff war in New Zealand, and the 1885 Riel Rebellion in Canada. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Massacre and Retribution: Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century

Sutton Pub Ltd

This text recounts the darker side of some of the forgotten colonial wars. These include the Opium War (1839-42) which shamed Britain and was fought to maintain the opium trade. Thousands died as British technology and warships hammered Chinese warriors on land and at sea. Also explored is the Benin Massacre (1897) wherein the murder of an unarmed British mission by a fetish king who practiced human sacrifice led to terrible retribution as an expeditionary force used machine guns to bloody effect. These are some of the stories from Britain's colonial past, which Ian Hernon reappraises. His narrative is interspersed with eyewitness accounts of the events described and with line drawings and illustrations from the Illustrated London News.

The Savage Empire: Forgotten Wars of the 19th Century

Military

Blood in the Sand focuses on colonial conflicts in far-flung places now lost or fading from Britian's collective memory.

Blood in the Sand: More Forgotten Wars of the 19th Century

World

The History Press

This is a collection of Ian Hernon's three books, Massacre and Retribution, The Savage Empire, and Blood in the Sand. Much has been written about the great British military triumphs of the 19th century, but there are many more astonishing stories which have been largely forgotten. These forgotten wars cannot hope to compete in history with the Crimean War or the Boer War, but for acts of sheer courage and endurance, they deserve to be remembered. Using the actual words of the soldiers themselves, Ian Hernon presents an account which evokes Victorian colonial warfare in all its barbarity and the self-righteous belief of the British in the rectitude of their cause.

Britain's Forgotten Wars

Sutton Publishing

A visual representation of Pax Britannica, which was truly anything but, as there was barely a day over the 60 years of Victoria's reign in which a British soldier did not die in battle
Victoria's long and illustrious reign saw Britain ruling the world's biggest Empire—but it came at a heavy cost. A myth has grown up that apart from involvement in the Crimean, a heroic stand against Zulus at Rorke's Drift, and the Boer War which was raging as she died, this was an age of peace together with prosperity. But in reality, her armed forces were locked in deadly conflict across the globe, from the Punjab to New Zealand, from Abyssinia to Belize. Political journalist and military historian Ian Hernon brings to life these conflicts as they appeared to those fighting them and to those they left at home. He has brought together illustrations from the time, once eagerly devoured by an anxious public, but largely unseen since. They show Victorian warfare in all its horror and glory together with the advances in an increasingly mechanized age to transport and supply the troops, and it pays tribute to those war artists and correspondents who risked their lives alongside the troops.

The Sword and the Sketch book

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

As Stuart Laycock's book All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it comes to aggressive forays abroad. But it hasn't all been one way. In 1193 for example, the Danes teamed up serial offenders, the French, for a full-scale invasion. The French Prince Louis the Lion came close to success exactly 150 years after the Battle of Hastings. The 100 Years War saw multiple raids on British towns and ports by the Spanish and French. Following the Armada, there was the bloodless invasion of 1688, Bonnie Prince Charlie's march south, the remarkable American John Paul Jones' attack on Whitehaven during the American War of Independence, the German occupation of the Channel Islands and - the great what if of British, perhaps world history - the threat of Operation Sealion.Ian Hernon brings his journalistic flair to bear in this dramatic narrative of the survival of an island race over 900 years - sometimes, surprisingly, against the odds. Whilst such a history (one leaving out the boring bits) is bound to entertain, it also cannot fail to inform: where were shots last exchanged with an enemy on the mainland? At Graveney Marsh in Kent.

Fortress Britain

Robert Tressell - A Life in Hell: The Biography of the Author and His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Red Axe Books

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Riot!: Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day

Assassin!: 200 Years of British Political Murder

Assassin!: 200 Years of British Political Murder

Massacre and Retribution: Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century

The Savage Empire: Forgotten Wars of the 19th Century

Blood in the Sand: More Forgotten Wars of the 19th Century

Britain's Forgotten Wars

The Sword and the Sketch book

Fortress Britain

Robert Tressell - A Life in Hell: The Biography of the Author and His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists