This print commemorates the working people who formed an uprising to protest the rejection of a reform bill in the House of Lords which would have enabled working men to have a vote. The Queen Square riot, with other protests, led to the formation of the Chartist and Suffragette movements.

Lino cut by artist Luke Carter 

Printed letterpress in three colours on Somerset Buff. Printed on the FAG Swiss Proof 40 and Albion Press.

Hand-set victorian type and wooden decorative rules. The text has been printed on the Albion Press that was made one year after the Riots in 1832. It was bought new by Burleigh Press in Broad Street, Bristol: just a couple of minutes from where it sits now in our printshop. The press would have almost certainly printed stories connected to the riots and the Great Reformation Act of 1832, where working men first got the vote.

This is the second edition of this print and the first to feature a hand-set letterpress title.

Print measures 1000mm x 385mm with deckled edge on all four sides.

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