TPUK 1976 Number 3 Volume 5

A 1795 halfpenny metal alloy token with a pig trampling on two crowns and emblems of royalty with a banner with an inscribed words above ‘Pigs meat Published by T. Spence London’. On back is inscribed ‘Thomas Spence, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Paine’ with the words around ‘Noted advocates for the rights of men’ – © The Trustees of the British Museum

BOOK REVIEW: People for the People – Radical Ideas and Personalities in British Social History

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Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1976 Number 3 Volume 5

Well after hitting out what does one make of the book as it stands? Well it’s good, even if it deals in the main with the familiar. It’s worth getting, although I am uncertain as to what section of the reading populace towards which it is directed.

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