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This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
Francis Place's autobiography presents a vivid and readable account
of the early life of one of the best-known radical reformers of the
early 19th century. The publication of Place's manuscript for the
first time in book form is a landmark in the expanding field of
studies in artisan self-consciousness of the pre-Victorian era. The
book will be of obvious value to those interested in the origins of
the Reform Movement and especially of the controversial reform
group, the London Corresponding society. In his description of the
rise and fall of the LCS and of the men who composed it and other
reform groups. Place brings to life the human feelings and failings
of the working-class democratic movement, and his own lifelong
attempts to 'promote the welfare of the working class'.
The Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792-1799, first
published in 1983, consists of eighteenth-century documents which
trace the history of an early working-class reform society
organized by a shoemaker and three of his friends. 'Annual
Parliaments and Universal Suffrage' was their slogan and their
goal. To achieve this reform they believed they must first educate
the people to know what their rights were and how to exercise them.
So popular were they that over 10,000 men paid to join the Society
and over 100,000 people attended their open air meetings. Such
numbers alarmed the government, especially since spies reported
talk or arming and revolution, of assassinating Pitt and shooting
'royal game'. Unlike many groups which set out to demand their
political or social rights, but which scattered as soon as they
encountered opposition, the Corresponding Society met openly for
over six years despite harassment by police magistrates,
interference from press gangs, vilification in newspapers,
denunciations in Parliament, introduction of repressive laws,
arrest of members, and expensive trials. The blow from which they
could not recover was a 1799 Act of Parliament outlawing the
Corresponding Society by name.
The Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792 1799, first
published in 1983, consists of eighteenth-century documents which
trace the history of an early working-class reform society
organized by a shoemaker and three of his friends. 'Annual
Parliaments and Universal Suffrage' was their slogan and their
goal. To achieve this reform they believed they must first educate
the people to know what their rights were and how to exercise them.
So popular were they that over 10,000 men paid to join the Society
and over 100,000 people attended their open air meetings. Such
numbers alarmed the government, especially since spies reported
talk or arming and revolution, of assassinating Pitt and shooting
'royal game'. Unlike many groups which set out to demand their
political or social rights, but which scattered as soon as they
encountered opposition, the Corresponding Society met openly for
over six years despite harassment by police magistrates,
interference from press gangs, vilification in newspapers,
denunciations in Parliament, introduction of repressive laws,
arrest of members, and expensive trials. The blow from which they
could not recover was a 1799 Act of Parliament outlawing the
Corresponding Society by name.
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