COVER -- Copyright -- ALSO BY JOHN HOSTETTLER -- Contents -- About the author -- Dedication -- INTRODUCTION -- Heroes -- Dissenters -- Radicals -- Heretics -- Blasphemers -- Rebels -- EARLY CONFLICT OF RELIGION AND POLITICS -- Introduction -- Pelagius -- English Nationalism -- Independence -- Charge of Heresy -- Indestructible Views -- JOHN WYCLIFFE -- Early Protestant -- John of Gaunt -- Church Indulgences -- Bible in English -- Politics -- End of Pope's Power of Inquisition -- Death -- RELIGIOUS MARTYRDOM -- Sir John Oldcastle -- Abuse of Criminal Law -- Transubstantiation -- Found Guilty -- Death by Fire -- Poor Priests -- WAT TYLER AND THE PEASANTS' REVOLT -- Hated Poll Tax -- Black Death -- Wat Tyler and the March on London -- Rebel Demands -- Meeting the King -- Vengeance -- Heroic Message -- CROMWELL'S COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE -- Undermining the Traditional Ethos -- John Lilburne and the Levellers -- The Putney Debates -- Trials of "Freeborn John" -- Judges are Ciphers -- "Perverse Verdict" -- Women Levellers -- Second Prosecution of Lilburne -- Prophecy -- The Diggers or True Levellers -- Gerard Wynstanley -- St George's Hill and Cobham -- Political Programme -- THE ISLAND BEDLAM -- The Seekers and Ranters -- Scourges of the Wealthy -- Abominable Practices -- Muggletonians -- Fifth Monarchists -- Barebone's Parliament -- THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS -- Quakers -- Blasphemy -- William Penn -- Alleged Conspiracy -- Common Law -- Incredible Scenes in Court -- Bushell's Case -- Changing Image -- JOHN COOKE -- Barrister-at-Law -- Solicitor-General -- Prosecuting the King -- "Refusal to Plead is a Confession" -- Trial of John Cooke -- Vitriol -- JOHN MILTON -- Revolutionary Ardour -- Divorce Pamphlets -- Secretary for Foreign Tongues -- Freedom of Speech -- The Restoration -- Paradise Lost -- Optimism -- JOHN BUNYAN -- From Tinker to Christian.

Soldier in the New Model Army -- Imprisonment -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- Milton, Bunyan, Defoe -- Affinity with the Ranters -- DANIEL DEFOE -- Political Leanings -- The True-born Englishman -- Defending Dissenters -- Robinson Crusoe -- JOHN WILKES -- The Hellfire Club -- The North Briton -- Wilkes and Liberty! -- Absurd Ruling -- Massacre of St. George's Fields -- Unconstitutional Ploy -- Unreformed Parliament -- TOM PAINE -- Common Sense -- The Rights of Man -- Social Reform -- Trial for Seditious Libel -- Alleged Spy in France -- The Age of Reason -- Return to America -- WILLIAM WILBERFORCE -- The Clapham Sect -- Crusade Against the Slave Trade -- Morality -- The End -- THOMAS HARDY AND THE TREASON TRIALS OF 1794 -- Government Repression -- Rehearsal in Scotland -- Reign of Terror -- Trial of the Shoemaker -- William Pitt's Testimony -- Victory Tokens -- Hardy to Lafayette -- MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -- Early Development -- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- Controversy -- William Godwin -- THE PETERLOO MASSACRE -- "Orator" Hunt -- The Yeomen Charge -- York Assizes -- Eventual Success -- REFORM OR REVOLUTION -- Franchise Anomalies -- The Reform Bill -- Rioting -- Bristol in Flames -- Aftermath -- Propaganda -- Francis Place -- Victory -- CHARTISM: JOHN FROST AND ERNEST JONES -- The Peoples' Charter -- Women Supporters -- Divisions within the Movement -- John Frost -- Bull Ring Violence -- The Newport Rising -- High Treason -- Chartist Leaders Gaoled -- Kennington Common -- Ernest Jones, the Chartists' Advocate -- "The Charter and No Surrender" -- Red Republican -- THOMAS WAKLEY - AN ENEMY OF INJUSTICE -- An Improbable Radical -- The Lancet -- The Ballot -- Tolpuddle Martyrs -- Friend of Chartism -- The People's Judge -- Coroner for West Middlesex -- Death by Flogging -- KEIR HARDIE -- Self-help -- The Cloth Cap -- The Independent Labour Party.

The Birth of the Labour Party -- The Labour Party and the Taff Vale Case -- Aftermath -- International Impact -- Folk-hero -- THE PANKHURSTS AND THE SUFFRAGETTES -- Votes for Women -- Birth of the Suffragette Movement -- The Mud March -- Schism and Successes -- In Court -- Forced Feeding of Hunger Strikers -- More Violence -- "Cat and Mouse" -- The Derby -- Appraisal -- Sylvia Pankhurst -- Stream of Dissent -- MARIE STOPES -- Campaigner for Birth Control -- The Mothers' Clinic -- Eugenics -- International Success -- BATTLE OF CABLE STREET -- British Union of Fascists -- "They Shall Not Pass" -- BUF Defeat -- CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT -- The Atomic Age -- J. B. Priestley's Call -- Aldermaston Marches -- Committee of 100 -- Cuban Missile Crisis -- Greenham Common -- Current Policy -- MODERN REVOLT -- Rebels -- The Angry Brigade -- Battle of The Beanfield -- Poll Tax Riots -- Conclusion -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Champions of the Rule of Law -- BACK COVER.