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Why History Matters...and Why Radical History Matters More...Part 1 (Roger Wilson 1)From Peterloo to Captain Swing: Victims or Insurgents?: Roger Wilson critiques received 'radical' narratives of enfranchisement and the formation of Trade Unions in Britain by focusing on the hidden history of uprising and insurrection in the early 19th Century. Why have some events been ignored or denigrated and others been championed by the left and the labour movement?

• Release Date

  Nov 29, 2009

• Runtime

  33:02