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This original book explores the thinking behind Brown's murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.

Activism. --- Everyday. --- Eye of History. --- History Painting. --- Hogarthian art. --- Liberalism. --- Manchester. --- Modernity. --- Romantic. --- Thomas Carlyle.