Video Links

The Royal Holloway has organised a Citizens’ Project to explore the ‘history of liberty, protest and reform’ in British Democratic history through local museums and online. Below is the video they produced with contributions from the Museum of Farnham and the Cobbett Society.

William Cobbett returns to Farnham on the 250th anniversary of his birth, and casts his mind back over his eventful life.Video produced by the William Cobbett Society, 2013.

Richard Thomas and Luath Grant Ferguson of the Cobbett Society summarise Cobbett's extraordinary contribution to history in this short video produced by the Cobbett Society.

Retired political journalist, Max Cotton spent 2022 - 2023 consuming only food and drink grown on his smallholding in South West England (salt and tap water being his only concessions). His YouTube channel, 100% Food Self-Sufficiency, can be accessed below.

2013 was the 250th anniversary of Cobbett's birth. The video below looks at the various ways in which the anniversary year was celebrated.

Rousing extracts from Cobbett's pamphlet, Rural War, published in 1830 during the Swing Riots, produced by History Hub, part of the Royal Holloway Citizens Project.

Episode 9, Series ten of this popular BBC TV series features Charlie Ross and Natasha Raskin visiting Farnham and hearing what Richard Thomas has to say about William Cobbett. Sadly this episode is no longer available on BBC iPlayer, but we will add a link should it become availabla again.