Entries for the tag ‘Hobson, Joshua (1810-76)’
Chartist and Tory Radical, publisher of the Book of Murder, a pamphlet attacking the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, and of the (Chartist) Northern Star (1838-44). 
- 17 July 1844: Tory Radical Joshua Hobson tells Leeds council that Liberal mayor Hamer Stansfield was wrong to prohibit public meetings on the semi-privatised Kirkgate market
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