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A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.

The English chartist circular and temperance record for England and Wales.

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A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.

The English chartist circular and temperance record for England and Wales.