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Forgotten Heroes: The 1820 Radical War |
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The government’s retribution was as harsh as the not-always-unsympathetic juries would allow; but examples had to be made, and they took the form of the executions of Wilson, Hardie and Baird. The rising was over, but the radical movement was only in an early stage of its evolution.
To some, the whole episode may appear minor and of little historical importance in comparison to other Scottish rebellions of earlier centuries; however, the rising must seen in the context of reformist, radical and revolutionary traditions. Ordinary people from all over an increasingly industrial Scotland had been inspired to rise and overthrow the state in order to secure their rights and better working conditions. The 1820 Rising must be seen as a prototype of the mass movements that would gather under the Chartist or socialist banners later in the century and into the next.
Along with the Peterloo incident, it marks an intensification of the desire and need for reform, and the martyrs, Wilson, Hardie and Baird, would serve as examples to those who feared that nothing could be done in the face of such as an increasingly powerful industrial state.
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