Robert Owen Papers

Period 1812-1822 (-1913)
Total size   0.01 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Newtown, Great Britain 1771, died in Newtown 1858; cooperator and utopian socialist; made name as an educational philanthropist during his management of the industrial community New Lanark, Scotland; agitated for factory reform; founded New Harmony, a communitarian experiment in the USA 1825-1828; back in Britain launched the National Equitable Labour Exchange in 1832, the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in 1834 and the Association of All Classes of All Nations in 1835; continued promoting the foundation of communities through his organs The Crisis 1832 and The New Moral World 1834 and through his organizations, e.g. the Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists (`Rational Society') 1839 and the Home Colonisation Society 1841.

Content

Three letters, to Jeremy Bentham, William Clegg and to an unknown person 1822, 1840; a note on `new building' written by Owen, 1812; printed material, including `Preliminary Charter of the Rational System' 1843, bank note of the National Equitable Labour Exchange, membership card of the Social Missionary Union signed by Owen as its president; a letter from his son Robert Dale Owen to Julius R. Ames 1830.