1815 - 1848
Below is list of supporting documents from The National Archives used in this time period. Click on the links below to view images and transcripts.
- Letter from 'The Voice of the Multitude', 11 December 1816 (HO 40/3/2, folio 27)
- Letter from anonymous labourers to the gentlemen of Ashill, Norfolk. May 1816 (HO 42/150, folio 130v-131)
- The 'Peterloo Massacre' at St Peter's Field Manchester, 1819 (MPI 1/134)
- A spike that was used in evidence against the Cato Street Conspirators, convicted for an attempted assassination of the Cabinet, 1820 (TS 11/208)
- Poster regarding a number of escaped prisoners arrested for 'combining' as a 'trade union' to raise wages, 1820 (HO 52/1, folio 439)
- Letter threatening to burn the property of farmers who were believed to pay low wages or use labour saving machinery, 1830 (HO 52/8, folio 208)
- Poster for a Staffordshire coal miners' union public meeting, 27 October 1831 (HO 44/27, folio 203)
- A satirical print entitled 'The Political Drama', showing the Tolpuddle Martyrs seeking mercy from the King, 1834 (HO 44/27 f.193)
- A page from "The Glorious Working of the Whigs depicting 'Grinding the Poor'", 1836 (MH 32/60)
- A page from "The Northern Star", a Chartist newspaper, 1838 (TS 11/500)
- Poster for a 'Chartist' public meeting at Merthyr Tydvil [ Merthyr Tydfil ], 20 March 1848 (HO 45/2410 (5) folio 1001)
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