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An idea that a just gleamed from a post in EdT's 'Fight and Be Right", how could an English chartist based republic come about in the early 19th century? Many haughty patriots say a British Revolution was and is impossible, which is naturally hog-wash simply by the complexity of society and British history itself as an example.

So my PoD will be May 19th 1819, when the Duchess of Kent, in child birth tragically looses her unnamed baby girl...

Things to consider:
Peterloo
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Post-War Depression
Secret Police
Anti-Corn Law Movement
Catholic Emanicaption & Non-Conformism
Outdated Parliamentary Rep. (pre-1832, 158 voters controlled HALF of MP seats! :eek:)
Concert of Europe/Holy Alliance
Ultra Toryism
The English and Scottish Jacobins
Luddites
Slavery
Canadian radicalism
The Six Acts (the Anti-Terror Laws of their day)
Industrial Revolution
Hanover

Im going to try and sort out these countless threads into a bare TL but what do people think, what do you think these issues and others would do to effect a possible British Revolution?
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