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British Liberalism: The Grand Tour: John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre

10/12/2015

John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre

BBC Radio 4 - British Liberalism: The Grand Tour, John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre

A Jamaican rebellion rouses Victorian liberals against state violence. With Anne McElvoy.

Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of Victorian liberals John Stuart Mill and John Bright, and how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody suppression roused them against state violence.

Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of two high Victorian liberals - John Stuart Mill, and, via a visit to Manchester, John Bright.

She explores how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody suppression roused them against state violence.

With Eugenio Biagini, Stuart Jones, Ben Griffin, Edmund Fawcett and Richard Huzzey.

Producer: Phil Tinline.

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