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A 1795 halfpenny metal alloy token with a pig trampling on two crowns and emblems of royalty with a banner with an inscribed words above ‘Pigs meat Published by T. Spence London’. On back is inscribed ‘Thomas Spence, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Paine’ with the words around ‘Noted advocates for the rights of men’ – © The Trustees of the British Museum

BOOK REVIEW: People for the People – Radical Ideas and Personalities in British Social History

Well after hitting out what does one make of the book as it stands? Well it’s good, even if it deals in the main with the familiar. It’s worth getting, although I am uncertain as to what section of the reading populace towards which it is directed.

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Photo by William Edward Kilburn taken on 10 April 1848 titled "View of the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common" - link

BOOK REVIEW: Nottingham Chartism, Nottingham Workers’ In Revolt During The Nineteenth Century

Some readers may object to the bias shown to the Chartists. Yet if a bias is present it in no way detracts from the value of the work, this, as the author clearly states, is not a “King history” but is concerned with the struggles of ordinary men and women.

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