Bygones Worth Remembering (Vol. 1&2)
A Victorian Memoir of Radicalism, Secularism, Co-operation, and the Struggle for Religious LibertyBy George Holyoake
Length14h 20m
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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 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 20, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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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