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Thomas Martin Wheeler, 1811 – 1862

  • life stories

Daniel William Ruffy or Ruffy Ridley, 1805-1861

  • conferences

Second Convention, 1842: the ‘leviathan petition’

  • life stories

James Watson, 1799 – 1874

  • insurrection and monster meetings
  • material culture

Cartoons depicting magistrates and cavalrymen on 10 April 1848

  • material culture
  • petitions

Document: Petition for the People’s Charter

  • life stories

John Cleave, 1796 – 1850

  • life stories

James Bronterre O’Brien, 1805 – 1864

  • material culture

Three pewter tankards: ‘The Charter, No Surrender’

  • life stories

George Julian Harney, 1817-1897

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