"Words are the soul's ambassadors who go Abroad, upon her errands to and fro, They are the chief expounders of the mind, And correspondence kept 'twixt all mankind." They place in memory's clasp, truths we have read, Beautiful words, of both living and dead, Helping us cherish, and nurse as they grow, Elysian plants, from thoughts that we sow. Bringing to memory, and waking to life The form, and face of a child, or wife, The choicest treasures to mortals given, The golden thread that leads to heaven.

This 80 page book gives a brief, but full, history of the Pentrich Revolution. Illustrated with contemporary prints and modern photographs of key locations it tells the fascinating tale of how, on a wet night in June, 1817, a few hundred poorly-armed Derbyshire villagers set out to overthrow the British government. Inspired by the words of Tom Paine and driven by unemployment and hunger, they left the villages round Pentrich to join thousands of others wrongly supposed to be converging on Nottingham. After marching just thirteen miles, they were routed and scattered by a small detachment of...