Talk:London Corresponding Society

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Tidied and expanded a bit. The trades they did are interesting: separate from the growth of the factory system. --GwydionM 21:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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"moderate radical"

Can something be both? Cannonmc (talk) 09:27, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Sheffield branch"

Sheffield was not a branch of the LCS. Sheffield was the first corresponding society (this is acknowledged by Hardy in the papers; Manchester also pre-dates LCS). If anything London was a branch of the Sheffield Corresponding Society! Sheffield had far more members and was the inspiration for other societies (including London). The movement was not something confined to London, and certainly did not originate there. The movement sprang from unrepresented northern working-class cities.

I would perhaps suggest changing the page title to "Corresponding Societies" and including the wider (geographically speaking) history, or at the very least, creating a new article for Sheffield along with an edit on this page. This is an area which is quite well documented (for obvious reasons), and should be easy for someone with the time and inclination to fact check (unfortunately I lack both time and inclination at present).

I do appreciate much of the subsequent legal history, which was specific to the LCS (I have no issue with the middle part of the article; Key Activities and Government Response) being unique to London, and perhaps the prominence of those events does warrant London having a unique Corresponding Society article, but to airbrush Sheffield out of the picture in the other sections (especially "Early influences and foundation", and "Legacy") is inaccurate in the extreme.

I don't have time right now to find a bunch of primary sources (apologies), but, for anyone who is interested, as a primer I would recommend something like this: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/18reform/sheffcorr.htm

Bullblade (talk) 08:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]