Cartoons depicting magistrates and cavalrymen on 10 April 1848
Hand drawn and contemporary with the Chartist Meeting on 10 April 1848 on Kennington Common, this set of five cartoons
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Hand drawn and contemporary with the Chartist Meeting on 10 April 1848 on Kennington Common, this set of five cartoons
Read MoreEighteen inches in length, and decorated with a royal crest and lion, the police truncheon shown here is connected to
Read MoreJoseph Williams was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
Read MoreAlexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
Read MoreStanding nine feet tall and topped with a cap of liberty, it would have been difficult for visitors to the
Read MoreHenry Hanshard had been among the crowd at a meeting of Chartist and Irish Confederates in Novia Scotia Gardens, but
Read MoreOn 10 April 1848, thousands of Chartists assembled on Kennington Common in south London preparing to march on Parliament to
Read MoreThe 1848 Chartist Convention of 1848 was called to prepare the presentation of the third great national petition calling for
Read MoreThe page recounts how some London Chartists tried to organise an armed rebellion – known as the Orange Tree conspiracy
Read MoreWilliam Henry Chadwick was arrested for his Chartist activities in 1848 but lived on into the 20th century. This is
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