British radicals with no French revolutions

[Derek Jackson]

In OTL radical voice from the 1790s were suppressed in Britain partly because of fear of what happened in France.

WI either there had been better French harvists or a more moderate Political change had happened over the chanel.

Might demands for wide extension of the Franchise have happened earlier?

Might there even have been some kind or radical revolution in Britian.

[Thande]

There were plenty of radicals in Britain, e.g. Joseph Priestley, and the Chartists, but there's another factor one must consider as well as revolutionary France. Revolutionary America. The example of an Anglo-Saxon republic in America was arguably more worrying to the British system than the French republic was, I think. And, furthermore, it's to the USA that many of the British radicals, including Priestley, ended up fleeing.

[Derek Jackson]

There were plenty of radicals in Britain, e.g. Joseph Priestley, and the Chartists, but there's another factor one must consider as well as revolutionary France. Revolutionary America. The example of an Anglo-Saxon republic in America was arguably more worrying to the British system than the French republic was, I think. And, furthermore, it's to the USA that many of the British radicals, including Priestley, ended up fleeing.


Yes many British radicals looked to America. But I believe that it is the fear of what happened in France which made repression easier for the state