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|author=Frank McLynn
|title=The Road Not Taken: How Britain narrowly missed a revolution
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Since the Norman conquest, there have been no successful invasions of Britain. Yet according to this book, during that era the country has come close to revolution on seven occasions. These were the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450, the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, the English Civil War in the 1640s, the Jacobite rising in 1745-6, the Chartist Movement of the early Victorian era, and finally the General Strike of 1926. In each case, social turbulence threatened the status quo but went no further. Why and how did they ultimately fail?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224072935</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heather Gudenkauf
