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Sheffield Corresponding Society suppression 1796

1796
England
Era
modern
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Sheffield Corresponding Society membership of cutlers and artisans
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Government magistrates and informers
Outcome
SCS driven underground; leaders arrested or fled; Sheffield radicalism survived in clandestine form; the society had pioneered working-class political organisation
The Battle

History & Significance

The Sheffield Corresponding Society was the largest provincial radical organisation in England with thousands of members among Sheffield cutlers; government suppression including arrests and the Two Acts of 1795 forced the society underground and broke its open organisation

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Manor Lodge
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 miles
Former Sanderson's Darnall Steelworks and Don Valley Glassworks, Darnall Road
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 miles
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