Dave Steele

The Political Prisoners of Warwick Gaol

Saturday 12 October
Friends Meeting House
10.30am

In 1819 and 1839 there was political agitation in Birmingham to campaign for the extension of the voting franchise. On both occasions high profile arrests were made and public trails held at Warwick Assizes resulting in the incarceration of the defendants in Warwick Gaol. There the similarity ends. The 1819 prisoners, Thomas Wooler and George Edmonds, were placed on the debtors’ side, with access to pens, ink, and paper and allowed to purchase their own food. Their 1839 Chartist counterparts, John Collins and William Lovett, were treated as common felons with no such privileges and fed on a daily diet of bread, gruel and potatoes with thin broth twice weekly.

This talk by Dave Steele explores the reasons behind the contrast between these two cases.

Tickets £10.00
includes refreshments

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