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- ↑ An abstract of the history and proceedings of the Revolution Society London, England 1789 "At a Meeting of the Committee of the Revolution Society, Friday 19th Dec 1788, at the London Tavern. ... who shall be desirous of being admitted a Member of this Society, shall be sent to the Secretary, signed by two Members."
- ↑ Alpaugh, Micah (2014). "The British Origins of the French Jacobins: Radical Sociability and the Development of Political Club Networks". European History Quarterly. 44: 594. doi:10.1177/0265691414546456. S2CID 144331749.
- ↑ Daniel E. White "After 1792 the source of oppositionist discourse shifted from the London Revolution Society to the LCS and SCI."
- ↑ Gregory Fremont-Barnes Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New ... 2007 Page 423 "The London Corresponding Society was to be the most influential and the longest-surviving radical society in Britain in the 1790s"
