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Thomas Rayner Smart c1771 – 1847

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Carpenters Hall
Where Manchester Chartists met in their thousands to hear Feargus O’Connor

George Black
Chartist gun runner and gold diggers’ advocate at Ballarat, Australia

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

Chartist Lives
Read about the People who made up the Chartist movement

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Ernest Jones and the King of Hanover A youthful political indiscretion on the part of a Chartist leader

Celebrating Thomas Slingsby Duncombe
A rare Staffordshire pottery figure of the great Radical MP is still a highly desirable thing