The Queen Caroline Affair in Radical Periodicals by Abreu Georgina

“…These were The Republican, edited by Richard Carlile; Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, edited by William Cobbett; and the Black Dwarf, edited by Thomas Jonathan Wooler. …”
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Slavery and the birth of working-class racism in England, 1814-1833 by Hanley, R

“…It argues that by promoting a particular understanding of English racial superiority, radical intellectuals such as John Cartwright, William Cobbett, and Richard Carlile were able to criticise the diversion of humanitarian resources and attention away from exploited industrial workers and towards enslaved black people in the British West Indies or unconverted free Africans. …”

“The Real rights of Man” : Thomas Spence, Paine and Chartism by Malcolm Chase

“…This is evident even in the writings of Paine’s indefatigable disciple Richard Carlile. Four elements underpinned all Chartist thinking on landed property and they also encapsulated the essence of Spence’s ideas. 1] A fundamental belief that smallholder cultivation maximised the productivity of the soil. 2] Hostility to large holdings of landed property, irrespective of their legal form. 3] A suspicion of central government as a potential owner or manager of the national estate. 4] Land holding was part of a broader assault upon the citadel of economic and political power. …”
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