HOLYOAKE, George Jacob (1817-1906) 1831-1985

Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee

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Leeds Secular Society

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Travelling Tax Abolition Committee

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Holyoake Testimonial Fund

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Garibaldi, Giuseppi, 1807-1882

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Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906 co-operator and secularist

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Born, April 1817; aged eight began work with his father at a local foundry; began evening classes at the Birmingham Mechanics Institute in 1836 where he first came under the influence of the ideas of Robert Owen; member of the Chartist movement in Birmingham, although remained an supporter of moral force and refused to engage in rioting in Birmingham in 1839; applied to become a lecturer at the Birmingham Mechanics Institute, 1840, but was rejected and became a Owenite social missionary, first i...

Holyoake, George-Jacob 1817-1906

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George Jacob Holyoake was an English social reformer. His father was a smith, and Holyoake worked in the foundry, before encountering the socialist ideas of Robert Owen. He became a Chartist and teacher, and also wrote and edited socialist periodicals. Imprisoned for condemning Christianity, he founded the important socialist journal The Reasoner. He also opposed government censorship of the press, and worked for tax reform and other causes. From the description of George Jacob Holyo...

Congress of Social Reformers

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Birmingham Mechanics Institute

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London Atheistical Society

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