William Le Queux (1910) The Unknown Tomorrow: How the Rich Fare at the Hands of the Poor The horrors of a socialist revolution in 1935. In a novel entitled The Unknown Tomorrow, he [Le Queux] presented a nightmare vision of England in 1935, ruled by socialism, with mobs sacking London and burning temples of high […]

Bracebridge Hemyng (1871) The Commune in London : or, Thirty years hence : a chapter of anticipated history, London : C.H. Clark. The Commune in London: A Chapter of Anticipated History (1871) by S B Hemyng, who describes, with a wealth of detail, the ravages and crimes committed in the good city of London by […]

Anonymous (1886) The Great Irish Rebellion of 1886. Retold by a Landlord. It is hardly surprising, then, that writers of the 1880s, fired by the growing nationalist sensibility, tried to anticipate the possible results of a breakaway from the United Kingdom. The twenty years before the reform of local government (1898) which gave Irish Catholics […]