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'The Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, 1848', (c1878). Mass meeting of the working-class Chartist movement on 10 April 1848, at Kennington in south London. Irish Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor addressed up to 50,000 people over a petition in support of the Land Plan. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]