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Elin Morgan: On Spouter’s Corner

Think of Speakers’ Corner and what comes to mind? The spot where Karl Marx stood in 1855 to protest against the Sunday Trading Bill, hoping it would herald the English Revolution? Where the Pankhursts once proclaimed the cause of votes for women?

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