“Staunch reformers” a 1831 satirical print by John Dickinson with a dense crowd of rough-looking men at a London street-corner. One holds up a holds a placard on a pole topped by a red ‘liberty cap’ reading ‘Tom Paine’s Rights of Man—one penny!!!’ – © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Thomas Paine and Monarchical Republicanism 

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Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2011 Number 4 Volume 10

We remember Paine now, as radicals did in the nineteenth century, because he was distinctive — there have been few, if any, English political figures whose republicanism has been so strident and yet who have managed to communicate such a radical ideology (in an English context) to such a wide audience.

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