The first major study of the rural and cultural career of William Cobbett engages Cobbett's own writings, and other innovative sources such as popular songs, to

Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?

An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in rel