Introduction : The open theatre of the world?
Part I : Publicity, print, and association. Popular radical print culture : 'the more public the better'
The radical associations and 'the general will'
Part II : Radical personalities. 'Once a squire and now a man' : Robert Merry and the pains of politics
'The ablest head, with the blackest heart' : Charles Pigott and the scandal of radicalism
Citizen Lee at the 'Tree of liberty'
John Thelwall and the 'whole will of the nation'.