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Tag: 1842

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The Evening Star: Feargus O’Connor’s short-lived daily newspaper for London’s Chartists

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Full text of the Petition for the Charter, 1842

  • life stories

Daniel William Ruffy or Ruffy Ridley, 1805-1861

  • conferences
  • material culture
  • petitions

Engraving to commemorate the 1842 petition

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The 1842 leviathan petition in numbers

  • petitions

MPs vote to ignore the 1842 leviathan petition

  • conferences

Second Convention, 1842: the ‘leviathan petition’

  • insurrection and monster meetings
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Presenting the leviathan petition of 1842

  • petitions

Organising the Chartist petition of 1842

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Robert Kemp Philp, 1819 – 1882

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The Evening Star
Feargus O’Connor’s Chartist evening newspaper

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