City at the Heart of Radical Politics ; From Toxteth Riots to Shooting the Prime Minister, Liverpool Radicals Helped Shape British Politics Peter Elson Reports.
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IT probably will not come as too big a shock to find that Liverpool played a large part in the radical politics of Britain.
As some readers will also know, the only assassination of a British prime minister was by Liverpudlian, John Bellingham.See the full content of this document
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City at the Heart of Radical Politics ; From Toxteth Riots to Shooting the Prime Minister, Liverpool Radicals Helped Shape British Politics Peter Elson Reports.
However, it is more of a surprise to learn that Bellingham's actions in shooting dead Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, on May 11, 1812, were widely celebrated in the industrial North West.
When the vicar of Bellingham's local church of St Mark's gave a sermon deploring the murder, he received threatening letters from local Luddites.In all too typical Liverpool fashion, what was an embittered personal vendetta turned Bellingham in...See the full content of this document
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