Radicals – The Working Classes and the Making of Modern BritainGeoff Andrews, Yale University Press, £25THE title holds great promise, but its contents hardly live up to it. It is largely an eclectic mish-mash of widely known historical movements from the Chartists to the modern day, offering no new insights.As Andrews writes in his introduction, the role of the working classes in shaping modern Britain has been largely ignored by mainstream historians. He attempts to put the record straight but adopts an idiosyncratic approach.