Michael Bush

My pertinent research lies in two fields:
(a) the Tudor north
(b) radical reform in the early nineteenth-century north

My principal publication in relation to (a) is a trilogy on the pilgrimage of grace. It comprises The Pilgrimage of Grace: a study of the Rebel armies of October 1536 (Manchester, 1996); The Defeat of the Pilgrimage of Grace: a study of the postpardon revolts of December 1536 to March 1537 and their effect (Hull, 1999); and The Pilgrims' Complaint: a study of popular thought in the early Tudor north (Ashgate, 2009). My principal publications in relation to (b) are What is Love? Richard Carlile's Philosophy of Sex (London, 1998), "Richard Carlile and the Female Reformers of Manchester", MRHR 16(2002-3); "Dear Sisters of the Earth: the Public Voice of Manchester Women at the Time of Peterloo", North West Labour History Journal, 28 (2003); "A Massage from Mab: the Manchester Working Class and its Attachment to Percy Bysshe Shelley", ibid., 29 (2004); "The Women at Peterloo: the Impact of Female Reform on the Manchester Meeting of 16 August 1819", History, 89 (2004); The Casualties of Peterloo (Lancaster, 2005). Currently, I am writing a book on the northern friends and followers of Richard Carlile.

Michael Bush may be contacted on mandsbush<AT>o2.co.uk or at 9 Merlin Road, Wanstead, London E12 5DJ