Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 2 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition

The Speaker thereupon requested him to withdraw, and formally restated the claim to the House, remarking that he had "grave doubts" on the matter, and desired to refer it to the...

Admitted at last to the seat for which he had fought so long and so hard, Bradlaugh set himself strenuously to work to make up for lost time. With nearly every quality that goes...

It may here be well to give a general view of Bradlaugh's teaching on the great open questions of opinion and action, taking separately the old provinces of religion and politic...

In combining the propaganda of Freethought with that of Republican Radicalism, Bradlaugh was carrying on the work begun in England by Paine, and continued by Richard Carlile, me...

The year 1880 saw the last of the long struggle in Northampton and the beginning of that in the House of Commons. For twelve years my father fought prejudice and misrepresentati...

1880 April 2. Bradlaugh elected (with Mr Labouchere) for Northampton. May 3. Asked to be allowed to make affirmation of allegiance. A Select Committee agreed to be appointed to...

In April 1874 the preliminaries for a six nights' discussion between Mr Bradlaugh and the Rev. Brewin Grant, B.A., were arranged. It was to be held in the Bow and Bromley Instit...

There have been some fictions so pertinaciously circulated about Mr Bradlaugh that any story of his life would be incomplete without some reference to them. Lies are so proverbi...

Mr. Bradlaugh had agreed to make a second lecturing tour through the States in the autumn of 1874, and he started on it under the most inauspicious circumstances. We have just s...

On Friday, 23rd March, Mr Bradlaugh and Mrs Besant went together to the Guildhall, to deliver the earliest copy of the new edition of the Knowlton pamphlet to Mr Martin, the Chi...

In the foregoing account of the prosecution of my father and Mrs Besant I have thought it best not to burden the narrative with any side issues not immediately important. As, ho...

In 1874 Mr Bradlaugh lost a friend and gained one. Between himself and the friend he lost the tie had endured through nearly five-and-twenty years, of which the final fourteen h...

Hyde Park Meetings:-- Sunday Trading Bill, i. 52; Government Reform Bill, i. 81; Garibaldi, i. 214; Reform League, i. 224, 234; Parks Regulation Bill, i. 372; Peace Demonstratio...

Mr Bradlaugh addressed an audience in Oxford for the first time early in May 1875, when he spoke upon the subject of "Land and Labour." Some difficulty had been made as to the u...

There are other fables told about my father which have enjoyed a popularity almost equal to that of the famous watch episode. There is the allegation--referred to elsewhere--tha...

During the Russo-Turkish War great anxiety was shown by the Tories to drag England into the struggle; war songs were sung in the music halls; the old hatred of Russia was fanned...

I am now closely approaching the end of my task, and as yet I have only mentioned the National Secular Society incidentally. To leave it without further notice would be doing sc...

I suppose that all public men are more or less troubled with lunatic correspondents and lunatic visitors, so that in this respect Mr Bradlaugh was in no way singular; but perhap...

Appointment to sell the pamphlet--Arrested on a warrant--At the Guildhall--Application for a writ of _certiorari_--The Lord Chief Justice--Who was the prosecutor?--The trial at...

The defiance of Deity an ancient idea--_The British Monarchy_--Abner Kneeland--Emma Martin--G. J. Holyoake--Charles Capper, M. P.--The _Razor_--Rev. P. R. Jones, M. A., Dr Harri...

The _Parthia_--Mr J. Walter, M.P.--Sumner's opinion of Mr Bradlaugh's lecture--The Delaware Clionian Society--Milwaukee --Chicago--Intense cold--Mrs Lucretia Mott--A third lectu...

Six years of fighting--A record of injustice--Some who help to find the money to defend the right--Mr Bradlaugh's habits and surroundings--His commercial pursuits--Money difficu...

Side lights--"Man, whence and how?"--The Turberville legacy--From Turner Street to Circus Road--Selling the Knowlton pamphlet--The day of arrest--At Westminster--Mr G. J. Holyoa...