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Regency Era Events: The Six Acts, Squashing Treasonable Conspiracy

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Regina Jeffers

In the United Kingdom, following the Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819, the British government acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts, which labelled any meeting for radical reform as “an … Continue reading →

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