George Howell. Papers, 1864-1910.

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George Howell. Papers, 1864-1910.

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Autobiography, diaries, and correspondence of George Howell; also included are minutes of the IWMA, papers of the Trades Union Congress, and news clippings. Originals of these documents are located in the Bishopsgate Institute in London. Materials were filmed on behalf of the Society for the Study of Labour and Radical History.

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Cornell University Library

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Howell, George, 1833-1910

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Born, 1833, Wrington; education was both sporadic and rudimentary, ending before he was twelve; at the age of eight he began working as a ploughboy, later moving to assist his father as a mortar boy and, in 1847, he became apprenticed to a Wrington shoemaker; largely self-taught, he was to become a voracious reader, notably of religious tracts and radical periodicals; enrolled in a local Chartist group, 1848, and underwent conversion to Wesleyan Methodism and taught at Sunday school. At the end ...