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Radio 4,10 Dec 2015,15 mins
John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre
British Liberalism: The Grand TourAvailable for over a year
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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