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Full text of the Petition for the Prisoners, 1841

  • conferences

First Chartist Convention, 1839: the General Convention of the Industrious Classes

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Full text of the Petition for the Charter, 1848

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Organising the first Chartist petition, 1839

  • conferences
  • material culture
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Engraving to commemorate the 1842 petition

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The 1842 leviathan petition in numbers

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Second Convention, 1842: the ‘leviathan petition’

  • insurrection and monster meetings
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Presenting the leviathan petition of 1842

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Organising the Chartist petition of 1842

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Robert Kemp Philp, 1819 – 1882

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