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    The London Corresponding Society (LCS) was a federation of local reading and debating clubs that in the decade following the French Revolution agitated...
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    Radical, and the founder, first Secretary, and Treasurer of the London Corresponding Society. Thomas Hardy was born on 3 March 1752 in Larbert, Stirlingshire...
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    effectively but not without some friction. In 1794, Place joined the London Corresponding Society (LCS), a reform club. He was introduced by the shoemaker John...
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  • and until at least 1817. He is noteworthy as chairman of the London Corresponding Society in 1794 and as one of the twelve indicted during the 1794 Treason...
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    Back in London, he edited The Telegraph as an active member of the city's federation of democratic clubs, the London Corresponding Society. In advance...
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  • and the London Corresponding Society (LCS) The LCS was arguably the most influential and the longest-surviving of the societies. The London Revolution...
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    following his recall to London, as a republican conspirator. Despard's associations with the London Corresponding Society, the United Irishmen and United...
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    attempts at revolutionary sedition instigated by societies such as the London Corresponding Society and the United Irishmen. The mutiny at Spithead (an...
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  • Report on Radical and Reform Societies from 1794 was a document stating that the London Corresponding Society and the Society for Constitutional Information...
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  • October, in which the leaders were acquitted, the society ceased to meet. London Corresponding Society Radicalism (historical) Cornish, Rory T. "Cartwright...
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    and Birmingham. In London Coigly conferred with those Irishmen who had hastened the radicalisation of the London Corresponding Society: among them United...
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    reformer, one of the "Scottish Martyrs". He worked with the London Corresponding Society and the Society for Constitutional Information and also wrote an influential...
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  • the foundation of the working-class focused London Corresponding Society in 1792. Membership in the society increased rapidly and by the end of the year...
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  • Debating societies emerged in London in the early eighteenth century, and were a prominent feature of society until the end of the century. The origins...
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    William Hamilton Reid (category Writers from London)
    given to the Post Office. As an early member of the radical London Corresponding Society (LCS), Reid in 1793 wrote Hum! Hum!, a satirical song against...
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    In the late 18th century, many political societies, such as the London Corresponding Society and the Society of the Friends of the People, called for...
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  • (republican) (1750–1842), English radical and secretary of the London Corresponding Society John Frost (SAAF officer) (1918–1942), highest scoring air ace...
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  • often forgotten in history, such as obscure Jacobin societies like the London Corresponding Society. Thompson makes great effort to recreate the life experience...
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    Despard, who had been moving in radical circles in London—a member both of the London Corresponding Society and the United Irishmen—was the alleged ringleader...
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    James Parkinson (category Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College)
    was a member of several secret political societies, including the London Corresponding Society and the Society for Constitutional Information. In 1794...
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  • males by custom rather than statute. Olaudah Equiano and the London Corresponding Society (founded 1792) argued for expanded suffrage. Also see: Radicalism...
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  • consumer co-operative society of the United Kingdom London Corresponding Society, a radical British society founded in 1792 Louisville Collegiate School, a...
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  • Revolution (1789–1799). The cause was continued after 1792 by the London Corresponding Society. Eventually, the parliamentary franchise was expanded and made...
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    confiscated papers of the London societies. Although this action only affected the London Corresponding Society directly, the Society of the Friends of the...
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  • principle of constitutional monarchy; the events surrounding the London Corresponding Society were an example of the fevered times. In Ireland, the effect...
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    it. Equiano was an active member of the radical working-class London Corresponding Society, which campaigned for democratic reform. In 1791–92, touring...
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    in March 1798 he orchestrated the arrests in London of leading radicals in the London Corresponding Society and their United Irish contacts, among them...
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  • Charles James Fox, remained idealistic about the Revolution. The London Corresponding Society founded in 1792 was partly modeled on the Jacobins to pressure...
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    prohibited freedom of assembly for groups such as the radical London Corresponding Society (LCS) and encouraged indictments against radicals for "libelous...
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  • English radical and republican, known as the secretary of the London Corresponding Society. Born in October 1750, Frost was educated at Winchester College...
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