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Robert Blatchford at Heacham – Norfolk

Jun 7, 2022By Country Standard

At Heacham, on the north Norfolk coast, Robert Blatchford friend Harry Lowerison kept a co-educational school (Ruskin School, Station Road)
Outside the school grounds stood a small cottage which had been a shop. It had a big garden, and for thirty year…Read more…

Jun 7, 2022Country Standard

Merrie England – Robert Blatchford

Mar 11, 2022By Country Standard

“A year before the issue of Merrie England, there were not 500 Socialists in Lancashire. A year after there were 50,000.” 
Alex Thompson

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Mar 11, 2022Country Standard

Manchester ILP Wheelers established in 1892

Mar 3, 2022By Country Standard

Manchester ILP Wheelers established in 1892Swiftsure – Frank LeemingClarion Cycling Club
ILP Independent Labour PartyILP Scouts
Nelson Clarion House

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Mar 3, 2022Country Standard

Thomas Parker – Wellesbourne – Agicultural Labourers Union

Mar 3, 2022By Country Standard

Thomas Parker, Primitive Methodist lay preacher chaired the founding meeting of the National Agricultural Labourers Union (NALU ) meeting at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 1872
Parker, Born ? Buried ?
Warwickshire History, vol. X, 2 ‘Thomas Parker’ pp. 47-…Read more…

Mar 3, 2022Country Standard

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM TOZER – VENTNOR WW1 – BASRA

Feb 18, 2022By Country Standard

 LIEUTENANTWILLIAM TOZERClerk Ventnor District Council – Isle of WeightNALGO (now Unison) memberRoyal Field Artillery1st/5th Hants Bty.Died 5 May 1916Kut-el-Amara – Prisoner of WarBuried
BASRA MEMORIAL IRAQWW1
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY Friday, July 1…Read more…

Feb 18, 2022Country Standard

English Republican Flag

Feb 16, 2022By Country Standard

 “Choose for hope the sky serene, freedom Albion’s cliff’s so white,
And the eternal ocean’s green choose we for our native right:
Blue and white and green shall span England’s Flag republican.”
W. J. Linton, ‘The English Republic’, 1851.

Give u…Read more…

Feb 16, 2022Country Standard

Harry Lowerison – Clarion – Darwinism – Socialism

Feb 9, 2022By Country Standard

 

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Feb 9, 2022Country Standard

Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895

Feb 9, 2022By Country Standard

Clarion Field Club
Harry Lowerison
Established 1895
Clarion Movement
Clarion Newspaper
Nature
Early socialist nature club

Harry Lowerison instructed that they were to be the collective stewards of the people’s heritage. 
In rules devised by Har…Read more…

Feb 9, 2022Country Standard

Eight Week Strike at Clarks – Street – Somerset

Feb 8, 2022By Country Standard

 
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Feb 8, 2022Country Standard

Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895

Jan 6, 2022By Country Standard

Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895

Harry Lowerison
As conductor of the Clarion field clubs, I am often asked to give advice as to how to start a field club. Well, in nearly every large town in England there are such clubs already in existence, and, …Read more…

Jan 6, 2022Country Standard

THE KENT NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS’ UNION 1872

Jan 2, 2022By Country Standard

 150th AnniversaryTHE KENT AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS’ UNION 1872
Meetings for the formation of branches of the above Union have been held during the past week at Hoath, Burham, Aylesford, and Frittenden. It is stated authority that the Union now numb…Read more…

Jan 2, 2022Country Standard

Radical West Sussex – Labour Party

Jan 1, 2022By Country Standard

Chichester Labour Party established February 1919    
Secretary: Alice Florence Eastland

Littlehampton Labour Party established 17th December 1918 Secretary: F.S. Mitchell (school teacher)

Bognor Labour Party established 25th Marc…Read more…

Jan 1, 2022Country Standard

Victorian Latten Glass Slide – Rural Temperance

Dec 30, 2021By Country Standard

 

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Dec 30, 2021Country Standard

Edward Robertshaw Hartley – Clarion Van

Dec 30, 2021By Country Standard

Edward Robertshaw Hartley
(25 May 1855 – 18 January 1918) 
Born: Bradford Buried: Bethel Chapel – Shelf – Calderdale – Yorkshire Wife: Mary Jane Thrippleton

“Fellowship Is Life” 
Clarion Van speaker Clarion Cycling Clario…Read more…

Dec 30, 2021Country Standard

Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895

Dec 30, 2021By Country Standard

Clarion Field ClubsEstablished in 1895 by Harry Lowerison 1863-1935 founder and organiser. 
The Clarion Field Clubs were part of the wider Clarion Movements attempt to encourage a knowledge of nature and wildlife

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Dec 30, 2021Country Standard

Great Wilbraham TGWU Branch estb 1924 – Frederick Lewington

Dec 30, 2021By Country Standard

Great Wilbraham TGWU Agricultural section union branch Frederick Lewington Died December 1930Died of WW1 injuries 
Branch established 1924 Cambridgeshire Ely Cambridge

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Dec 30, 2021Country Standard

Barnstable Dockers

Dec 30, 2021By Country Standard

 Barnstable Dockers (North Devon) December 1926TGWU Union

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Dec 30, 2021Country Standard

Harry Lowerison – Clarion Field Club 1895 and Ruskin School House

Dec 22, 2021By Country Standard

 

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Dec 22, 2021Country Standard

Robert Blatchford – Clarion – Grave

Oct 27, 2021By Country Standard

Robert Blatchford’s – Editor of the Clarion newspaperFinal resting place – Grave
Horsham, West Sussex Hills Cemetery HorshamGrave PLOTM 016 Clarion 
“FELLOWSHIP IS LIFE”

Clarion Van Clarion Cycling Clarion Choir Clarion Football, C…Read more…

Oct 27, 2021Country Standard

Clarion Van at Epsom – Surrey – August 1907

Oct 27, 2021By Country Standard

Thomas Gavan Duffy was one of the first socialist speakers at Epsom during a visit from the famous Clarion Van August 1907 Duffy later MP Whitehaven

The Clarion “William Morris” Van  visited Epsom again in June 1909

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Oct 27, 2021Country Standard
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