Lajos Kossuth: a Hungarian revolutionary in Islington

Speaker: Dr Thomas Lorman
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

Thomas Lorman took a PhD in History at the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and divides his time between teaching in the United States and researching and publishing in the UK and Europe. He is an acknowledged authority on British history and Hungarian high politics, and specialises in the history of Anglo-Hungarian relations.

Lajos Kossuth, following the defeated Hungarian revolution of 1848-49 became one of the most wanted men in Europe, and one of the most celebrated speakers conducting what we might these days consider to have been a world tour. In 1851 he addressed one of the largest of London's Chartist gatherings in Copenhagen Fields, with words that the crowd hadn't necessarily expected to hear. Documentary evidence exists of the petition submitted afterwards on Kossuth's behalf to Lord Palmerston by the parishoners of St Mary's, Islington.