The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia. This book focuses on this period.

Trial literature was an established genre that radicals exploited for their own ends and this selection reproduces facsimiles of the original versions put out by the radical press. The set has a general introduction, but each of the trials is carefully introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading.

Volumes 6 and 7
The trial of John Home Tooke, for high treason, at the Sessions house in the Old Bailey,... November, 1794.... Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gumey (1795)
Volume 8
The trial of Thelwall is volume 3 of State Trials for High Treason, embellished with portraits (1794)