LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES

Tag: 1810s

Mar 10

Today in London open space history, 1801, an attempt to enclose Bedfont Common fails
Nov 29

Today in London’s media history, 1814: Times proprietor John Walter bypasses printers to instroduce new steam-press
Feb 22

Today in London legal history, 1811: Leigh and John Hunt acquitted of seditious libel, after denouncing flogging in the army
Jan 29

Today in radical publishing history, 1817: first issue of the Black Dwarf newspaper
Jan 12

Today in London religious history, 1819: Followers of millenarian prophetess Joanna Southcott ’cause a riot’ in Cannon Street
Feb 17

Today in London radical history: Chartist socialist George Julian Harney born Deptford, 1817.
Mar 6

Today in London rebel history: riots erupt against the Corn Laws, 1815
Mar 4

Today in repressive history: habeas corpus suspended in goverment crackdown on radicals, 1817.
Dec 19

Today in London’s legal history: William Hone acquitted for writing parodies of religious liturgies, 1817.
Dec 11

Today in London’s radical history: Times compositors jailed for ‘conspiring’, 1810.

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