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22: 111:. St Matthew's was opposite the "Hall of Science" built by the Owenites in 1839. The socialists meeting there were prosecuted for having lectures on Sunday and charging for admission, contrary to a statute of George II. They were prepared to show that the "collection" had been a voluntary one, but when witnesses declined to take the oath there was no legal defence, and they were fined. The context was a claim, in the Owenite 802: 93: 129:, had the magistrate put to Buchanan the oaths that by statute were required from dissenting ministers. Buchanan postponed the decision, costing him some derision from the secularist side, but eventually swore. Bunting then managed to draw from him a declaration that he did not believe in the orthodox doctrines of 117:
of 11 April 1840, that the Halls of Science were "churches of the people". The legal implication was that the corresponding "ministers" be prepared to take oaths, under legislation of George III for nonconformists.
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An Exposure of the Falsehoods, Calumnies, and Misrepresentations of a Pamphlet entitled "The Abominations of Socialism Exposed," being a refutation of the charges and statements of the Rev. Joseph Barker
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The Religion of the Past and Present Society, founded upon a false fundamental principle inimical to the extension of real knowledge opposed to human happiness
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The building was registered as the meeting-house of a society of dissenters by the name of "Rational Religionists". Buchanan and another "social missionary",
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The Origin and Nature of Ghosts, Demons, and Spectral Illusions generally, fully and familiarly explained and illustrated
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of this period was Lloyd Jones. Buchanan himself was involved in local politics, but became unpopular. He bought the
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took the line that the solution was arbitration. On the staff as industrial reporter was Alexander Campbell;
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was an important centre of Owenism, and Buchanan settled there, producing publications. A contributor to
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paper in 1841. In August of that year he attempted to enter the Anti-Corn Law meeting of ministers in
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Concise History of Modern Priestcraft, from the time of Henry VIII until the present period
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Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World
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Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British secularist movement, 1791–1866
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was a staff journalist also, though briefly. Another socialist writer in the
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Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism
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Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism
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Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
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The Manchester Hall of Science, Campfield, after its 1850 conversion to
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The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England
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The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England
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Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854
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Closer to hand was Rev. William John Kidd, from 1840 of the
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from 1839: Barker had a high profile in attacking Owenites.
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was a reply to a sermon preached by the Rev. W. J. Kidd of
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http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp293-297
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was born in 1841. Wife and son took up residence at the
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in a Methodist chapel in 1842, and gave up lecturing.
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Index


socialist
Ayr
Huddersfield
Robert Owen
Manchester
Northern Star
Chartist movement
Methodists
Joseph Barker
Gateshead

Manchester Free Library
Didsbury
St Matthew's Church, Manchester
New Moral World
Lloyd Jones
Jabez Bunting
damnation
Manchester Town Hall
Alexander Campbell
Whitehaven
Norwood
Surrey
co-operative movement
George Holyoake
Alexander Gardner
Preston strike of 1853
Hugh Macdonald
Bexhill

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