The good fight
Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane IB Tauris, 304 pages, £20
On 16 August 1819 at St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, violence hung heavy in the air. Some 80,000 protesters had converged there to demand the reform of parliamentary representation and manhood suffrage. Within their ranks were around 9,000 vocal women, proudly carrying banners.
Incensed by the
