The story begins in France, in the summer of 1789, explains Patrice Higonnet, a professor emeritus of French history at Harvard University. As the French Revolution gained steam, an angry mob had just ...
They bayed, they hollered, they hooted, they cheered. After a miserable 18 months, in which they had ranged from dejected to mutinous to feral, Labour mps finally had something to shout for when ...