The 'Commune' in London: Trepidation about the LCC
John Kellett asks whether new proposals for the government of London in the 1880s would have created an enclave of revolution and radicalism in England, as had been the case in France in 1871.
The events which inspired the publication of the sixpenny booklet The Commune in London (1871) were familiar enough to its English readers. In the previous year the French Second Empire had collapsed after the Prussian victory at Sedan, and there had been an attempt to establish a revolutionary Communard local government in the besieged capital. Could anything similar conceivably occur, given such circumstances, on this side of the Channel?
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