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Power to the People

What’s the point of petitions?

Philip Loft | Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 5 May 2019

Dustmen, drunkards and washerwomen: ‘Petition Mongers in full Cry to St Stephens!! Beware of Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing’, by Isaac Cruikshank, 1795.

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