Biography and Memoir

Bygones Worth Remembering (Vol. 1&2)

A Victorian Memoir of Radicalism, Secularism, Co-operation, and the Struggle for Religious LibertyBy George Holyoake

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George Holyoake's *Bygones Worth Remembering* is a two-volume memoir of nineteenth-century British radicalism, combining personal recollection with social and intellectual history. Holyoake traces his development from working-class dissent and Chartist agitation to his leadership in secularism, cooperative reform, free speech, and the broader culture of political self-education. Written in a lucid, anecdotal, and documentary style, the work preserves conversations, controversies, institutions, and personalities that might otherwise disappear from the record. Its literary context is the Victorian tradition of reform autobiography: it is at once testimony, political narrative, and an informal archive of popular radical life. Holyoake (1817–1906) was among the most persistent advocates of secular thought and cooperative economics in Britain. His experiences as a lecturer, editor, publisher, and campaigner brought him into contact with the movements that challenged established religion, class privilege, censorship, and economic inequality. These varied engagements explain the book's unusual breadth and its characteristic concern with the practical mechanisms of reform—education, organization, print, and voluntary association. The memoir reflects a lifetime spent converting controversy into institutional and cultural change. This work is especially valuable for readers interested in Victorian political history, freethought, labor movements, cooperative culture, and the history of print. Holyoake's candid perspective does not replace archival scholarship, but it illuminates the motives, language, and everyday networks behind reform movements. Read critically, *Bygones Worth Remembering* offers both an engaging life narrative and an indispensable primary source for understanding how nineteenth-century radicals remembered—and sought to shape—their age.

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GenreBiography and Memoir

Length14 hrs 21 mins

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Publish dateOct 20, 2021

LanguageEnglish

1The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick

2Volume 1.

3PREFACE

4CHAPTER I. CONCERNING BYGONES PREFATORY

5CHAPTER II. PERSONAL INCIDENTS

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6CHAPTER III. OTHER INSTANCES

7CHAPTER IV. FIRST STEPS IN LITERATURE

8CHAPTER V. GEORGE ELIOT AND GEORGE HENRY LEWES

9CHAPTER VI. WHEN BIRMINGHAM WAS A TOWN

10CHAPTER VII. THE TENTH OF APRIL, 1848—ITS INCREDIBILITIES

11CHAPTER VIII. THE CHARTISTS OF FICTION

12CHAPTER IX. THE OLD POSTILLION

13CHAPTER X. MEETING BREAKERS—LIST OF THOSE PAID FOR DOING IT

14CHAPTER XI. TROUBLE WITH HER MAJESTY

15CHAPTER XII. UNFORESEEN QUALITIES IN PUBLIC MEN

16CHAPTER XIII. THE COBDEN SCHOOL

17CHAPTER XIV. HARRIET MARTINEAU, THE DEAF GIRL OF NORWICH

18CHAPTER XV. HARRIET MARTIN EAU—FURTHER INCIDENTS IN HER SINGULAR CAREER

19CHAPTER XVI. THE THREE NEWMANS

20CHAPTER XVII. MAZZINI IN ENGLAND-INCIDENTS IN HIS CAREER

21CHAPTER XVIII. MAZZINI THE CONSPIRATOR

22CHAPTER XIX. GARIBALDI—THE SOLDIER OF LIBERTY

23CHAPTER XX. THE STORY OF THE BRITISH LEGION—NEVER BEFORE TOLD

24CHAPTER XXI. JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE

25CHAPTER XXII. JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE

26CHAPTER XXIII. ABOUT MR. GLADSTONE

27Volume 2

28CHAPTER XXIV. CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. GLADSTONE

29CHAPTER XXV. HERBERT SPENCER, THE THINKER

30CHAPTER XXVI. SINGULAR CAREER OF MR. DISRAELI

31CHAPTER XXVII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN

32CHAPTER XXVIII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN

33CHAPTER XXIX. THE PERIL OF SCRUPLES

34CHAPTER XXX. TAKING SIDES

35CHAPTER XXXI. THINGS WHICH WENT AS THEY WOULD

36CHAPTER XXXII. STORY OF THE LAMBETH PALACE GROUNDS

37CHAPTER XXXIII. SOCIAL WONDERS ACROSS THE WATER

38CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH AT SEA

39CHAPTER XXXV. ADVENTURES IN THE STREETS

40CHAPTER XXXVI. LIMPING THRIFT

41CHAPTER XXXVII. MISTRUST OF MODERATION

42CHAPTER XXXVIII. PENAL CHRISTIANITY

43CHAPTER XXXIX. TWO SUNDAYS

44CHAPTER XL. BYWAYS OF LIBERTY

45CHAPTER XLI. LAWYERS' LICENCE

46CHAPTER XLII. CHRISTIAN DAYS

47CHAPTER XLIII. NEW CONVICTIONS WHICH CAME UNSOUGHT

48CHAPTER XLIV. DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING MEN

49CHAPTER XLV. IDEAS FOR THE YOUNG

50CHAPTER XLVI. EXPERIENCES ON THE WARPATH

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