London Corresponding Society

Connections

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politics	Olaudah Equiano	OE 's desire to improve the lives of black people, either those in Africa or those of the diaspora, had led him to think of becoming a missionary or a colonist. On nautical visits to...
Publishing	Mary Robinson	MR published a romantic sonnet, Twilight, in the Morning Post, where it appeared alongside accounts of a notorious divorce case and government action against the London Corresponding Society . Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 21

Timeline

16 December 1789

The Society for Constitutional Information (a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.

January 1792

A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society , an association for working men interested in political reform.

By mid May 1794

The First Report from the Committee of Secrecy was published in London. The Committee was set up to monitor and investigate potentially seditious activities by the Society for Constitutional Information (founded in April 1780)...

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