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Simon Rennie

Simon Rennie is associate professor of Victorian poetry at the University of Exeter and the author of The Poetry of Ernest Jones: Myth, Song, and the ‘Mighty Mind’.

Britain Feared the Paris Commune

Some of the cultural responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 — demonising revolutionaries and justifying soldiers’ atrocities — demonstrate just how deeply elements of British reactionism run.