Richard Carlile
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Richard Carlile was an English radical publisher and writer. He was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom.
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His favourite writing table in the library of the South Place Ethical Society
"The favorite writing table and fellow prisoner for more than nine years of Richard Carlile during his struggle to obtain the freedom of the press 1816 to 1834."
Print of the Peterloo Massacre published by Richard Carlile
The Age of Reason
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The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows i
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…in working-class circles, but also made the government more determined to silence him. In 1819, following his publication of Paine's long-banned The Age of Reason, Carlile was faced by a series of law suits from both the Attorney General and the Society for the Suppression of Vice. This had the effect of increasing…
Several early copies of The Age of Reason
An oil painting of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp, after a portrait by George Romney (1792)
A George Cruikshank cartoon attacking Paine; The caption reads: "The Age of Reason; or, the World turned Topsy-turvy exemplified in Tom Paine's Works!"
Thomas Jefferson, often identified as an American deist