Radicals (UK)

Radicals
Historical leaders
Founded1750s (1750s)
Dissolved1859 (1859)
Preceded byRadical Whigs
Merged intoLiberal Party
Newspaper
Grassroots wingHampden Clubs
IdeologyRadicalism
Factions:
Pro-American Revolution
Jacobinism (1790–1804)
Chartism (1838–1859)
Utilitarianism
Political positionLeft-wing[1][2]
Colours  Red

The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.

  1. ^ Alan Sykes, ed. (2014). The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism: 1776-1988. Routledge.
  2. ^ James Frey, ed. (2020). The Indian Rebellion, 1857–1859: A Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing. p. XXX. ISBN 9781624669057. British politics of the first half of the nineteenth century was an ideological spectrum, with the Tories, or Conservative Party, on the right, the Whigs as liberal-centrists, and the radicals on the left.