Thomas, Peter David Garner. “Nothing without a Grievance”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 25-6.
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April 1771: John Horne (later John Horne Tooke) and others...
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April 1771
John Horne (later John Horne Tooke
) and others seceded from the Bill of Rights Society
to form the Constitutional Society
.
October 1790: Thomas Walker founded the Manchester Constitutional...
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October 1790
Thomas Walker
founded the ManchesterConstitutional Society
.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
145
June 1791: Joseph Priestley founded a Constitutional...
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June 1791
Joseph Priestley
founded a Constitutional Society
in Birmingham.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
128
November 1791: The Sheffield Constitutional Society, a working-class...
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November 1791
The SheffieldConstitutional Society
, a working-class reform association, was formed.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
159, 167
April 1794: Thomas Walker, leading Manchester cotton...
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April 1794
Thomas Walker
, leading Manchester cotton merchant and founder of the Constitutional Society
there, was acquitted on a trumped-up charge of conspiring to subvert the constitution.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
139
December 1820: The Constitutional Association (at the opposite...
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December 1820
The Constitutional Association
(at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the various Constitutional Societies
) was formed in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, with the aim of silencing...
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