‘Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave’?: Chartism, Children and Conflict

  • Malcolm Chase
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Abstract

Howard Evans, author of the above account, grew up in a terraced house, in the shadow of a gasworks in Haggerston Lane, East London. His recollections almost certainly relate to Sunday 4 June 1848, the morning of which saw a series of running battles across Bethnal Green between, on the one hand the Metropolitan Police, and on the other Chartists and Irish Confederates. Later that evening, violence broke out again on a wider scale, ‘an indiscriminate, wanton, unhuman, and brutal attack was made upon Men, Women, and Children by the Police not only in the Field where the Meeting was held but in all the various Localities for near a Mile around’, according to one of many letters of protest lodged by residents of the area.2

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Notes

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