Radicals (UK)

Radicals
Historical leaders	William Beckford Jeremy Bentham John Cartwright James Mill William Molesworth Charles Dilke
Founded	1763 (1763)
Dissolved	1859 (1859)
Preceded by	Country Party Levellers Radical Whigs
Merged into	Liberal Party
Newspaper	The Westminster Review The Black Dwarf
Grassroots wing	Hampden Clubs
Ideology	Radicalism Factions: Pro-American Revolution Jacobinism (1790–1804) Chartism (1838–1859) Utilitarianism
Political position	Left-wing
Colours	Red
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The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.