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unusual facts about The Black Dwarf


The Black Dwarf

It was priced at 4d a week until the Six Acts brought in by the Government in 1819 to suppress radical unrest forced a price increase to 6d.



see also

International Marxist Group

The agitational work of The Week was carried on in the The Black Dwarf and in Socialist Woman, launched in 1969.

Thomas Jonathan Wooler

In response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817) passed by the British government in January 1817, Wooler started publishing The Black Dwarf as a new radical unstamped (untaxed) journal.