Following interest in Saturday's tweet about trading tokens, you might be interested to know that and include our Lackington token in their brilliant

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2020-06-01

56. Thomas
Russell, soldier, United Irishman, Belfast librarian, classicist, Wolfe Tone's friend, used Homer & Virgil in dazzling satires in republican Northern Star. Executed at age of 32 for participation in the doomed 1803 Irish rebellion

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2020-03-09

40/90. Stephen Smith, the autodidactic stonemason’s son in (autodidactic stonemason) Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873). He betrays his low class by his odd pronunciation of Latin, which he has learned from a correspondence course.

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2020-02-17

Image No. 6 from Republican actor William Macready rabble-rouses as pro-plebeian Caius Gracchus in post-Peterloo food-riots tragedy based on Plutarch by anti-poverty agitator James Knowles. The script was brutally censored by the Lord Chamberlain

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2019-02-19