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[005065] [Anarchist Demonstration Ticket] Anarchist Demonstration – Alexandra Hall College of Music, Cookbridge Street, Saturday, February 24, at 8 P.M. Intellectual Bombs. [Leeds]: No Publisher, First Edition. 48mo (Oblong). Unbound. Ticket. Good+. Single sided printed ticket for an anarchist demonstration, approximately 140mm x 90mm in size, no place, but Leeds, no date, but 1912

Printed in black, then overprinted in red when the hall booking was cancelled. Minor browning to edges, but generally clean

Speakers included George Barrett, Mat Kavanauch (presumably Mat Kavanagh) and George Davison (of Kodak fame). The first national conference of Anarchists for several years took place in Leeds, on the 24th and 25th of February 1912, the hall that had been booked was cancelled by the owners at the last minute, forcing the meeting to be held in Victoria Square, but still attracting two thousand people (See Quail, The Slow Burning Fuse, pages 272-3)

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