1. Much of this chapter is based on H.T. Dickinson, ‘Radicals and Reformers in the Age of Wilkes and Wyvill’, in Jeremy Black (ed.), British Politics and Society from Walpole to Pitt 1742–1789 (London, 1990), pp. 123–46 and H.T. Dickinson, British Radicals and the French Revolution 1789–1815, ch. 1 and 3, though more recent research has also been incorporated into it.
2. On the impact of the American issue on British extra-parliamentary politics, see, in particular, Colin C. Bonwick, English Radicals and the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 1977);
3. James E. Bradley, Popular Politics and the American Revolution in England (Macon, Georgia, 1986);
4. James E. Bradley, Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism (Cambridge, 1990), chs 6, 9–10; John Sainsbury, Disaffected Patriots; Paul Langford, ‘London and the American Revolution’, in John Stevenson (ed.), London in the Age of Reform, pp. 55–78; John Brewer, Party ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III, pp. 201–16;
5. and John Brewer, ‘English Radicalism in the Age of George III’, in J.G.A. Pocock (ed.), Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1766 (Princeton, 1980), pp. 323–67.