4 June 1848: Ernest Jones tells a 15,000 strong crowd at Bonner’s Fields in East London, ‘Only organise and you will see the green flag [of Chartism] floating over Downing Street’. Arrested for sedition, he spends the next two years in prison.
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Born on 25 January 1819 into a well-connected family, Ernest Jones spent much of his
