The Coldbath Fields Meeting

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1833

This 1833 meeting at Coldbath Fields (now Mount Pleasant) was called by the National Union of the Working Classes against the 1832 Reform Act. Large numbers of police surrounded 1-2000 protestors gathered and 'used their staves pretty freely.....many heads were broken'. In the ensuing melee, PC Culley was stabbed and killed.

COLDBATH FIELDS [Open Space], RIOTS, EPHEMERA (LIBRARY STOCK), Radical Islington

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