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Catalogue reference: HO 45/258
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- HO 45/258
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1842
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This file was originally catalogued under more than one subject heading. These headings, and details of this file, are as follows:
DISTURBANCES (See also Chartists, and Ireland; and HO45/102): Civil disturbances, Chartism, riots between English workers and Irish migrants, trade union agitation and strikes: Shropshire (1842 Apr-Sept).
CHARTISTS (See also Disturbances): General (by counties etc.) (1842). [Notes: See heading Disturbances for details of arrangement of these pieces].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4727248/
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Home Office: Registered Papers
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