History
It was a coffee-house and beer-shop founded in the 1820s by the radical publisher William Benbow (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
It no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It became a focus for the activities of the National Union of the Working Classes (founded 1831), and campaigners for co-operation and the emancipation of women (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for William Benbow)
Benbow’s radicalism has been seen as the origin of the idea of a “General Strike” (Niles Carpenter, ‘William Benbow and the Origin of the General Strike,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 35, no. 3, May 1921)
Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 8 Theobald’s Road from its foundation in the 1820s until 1834
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Niles Carpenter, ‘William Benbow and the Origin of the General Strike,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 35, no. 3 (May 1921)
Archives
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