On Hopkins Street: Radical Robert Wedderburn
Chris Townsend, 6 November 2025
‘Tailor and breeches-maker, field-preacher, Radical Reformer, Romance writer, Circulatory Librarian, and Ambulatory dealer in drugs, deism and demoralisation in general’ was the way the Morning Herald described Robert Wedderburn when he appeared in court in 1823. He had worked as a tailor for much of his adult life, but ‘Romance writer’ and ‘Circulatory...
