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John Barrell

John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.

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In the LRB archive

The Positions He Takes · 30 November 2006

subscriber-only content Unwarranted · 6 July 2006

  • John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash

subscriber-only content Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class · 21 April 2005

  • The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press by Ben Wilson  Buy this book

subscriber-only content The Reptile Oculist · 1 April 2004

subscriber-only content Divided We Grow · 5 June 2003

  • The London Corresponding Society 1792-99 edited by Michael T. Davis
  • Romanticism, Publishing and Dissent: Joseph Johnson and the Cause of Liberty by Helen Braithwaite

Inside the Head · 2 November 2000

  • Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Lever-Arch Inquisitor · 29 October 1998

  • Theatres of Memory, Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light

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