If you are in the vicinity of London, please mark your calendar for Thursday May 24 and join the John Thelwall Society at the unveiling of the first English Heritage “Blue Plaque” to Thelwall, at the site of his first Institution at 40 Bedford Place, Bloomsbury. The unveiling will be followed by a symposium with performances, “The People’s Voice: A Legacy in Action,” to be held at the site of his second Institution at 57 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
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"A sort of Socratic spirit will necessarily grow up, wherever large bodies of men assemble. Each brings, as it were, into the common bank his mite of information, and putting it to a sort of circulating usance, each contributor has the advantage of a large interest, without any diminution of capital." (John Thelwall, The Rights of Nature, 1796)