Kennington Common – Kennington Chartist Project

Caution Kennington Common

4th June 2018

Official poster issued by the Metropolitan Police on March 11th 1848 declaring meeting on Kennington Common Illegal.

The Horns Tavern

4th June 2018

The engraving depicts Kennington Common surrounded by a wooden fence

L’Illustration

5th June 201824th May 2018

Springtime of the Peoples

4th June 201824th May 2018

Image of the front cover of pamphlet The Springtime of the Peoples with engraving of Chartist rally showing Chartist leaders speaking to assembled crowd.

Kennington Park – The Birthplace of People’s Democracy

24th July 201820th April 2018

Feargus O’Connor’s Speech

8th May 20194th June 2018

Tom Collins reads Fergus O’Connor’s Speech through a megaphone in Kennington Park.

Talk : Salt-Pork and Daguerreotypes: Unpacking Evidence from 1848

25th May 2018

Extract from Old and New London 1878

25th May 201820th April 2018

Return of the Common Spirit

4th June 201817th April 2018

Great Meeting on Kennington Common

4th June 20185th April 2018

Full page scans of the Northern Star Newspaper pages 7 & 8, with a lengthy and detailed account of proceedings on Kennington Common on 10th April.