Dan Chatterton

19th century working class Chartist, secularist, birth control propagandist, communist and radical public speaker who was well known among the early London Anarchist and Marxist circles. He self-published several pamphlets and the journal 'Chatteron's Atheistic, Communistic, Scorcher'.

This text is a short sketch of the radical history of the Clerkenwell area, its characters and events.

Communist atheist pamphleteer, bill poster, slum dweller, early birth control advocate, fierce public ranter; Dan Chatterton is one of the most fascinating and undeservably obscure characters of the London radical scene in the second half of the 19th century.

Obituary for British anarchist Dan Chatterton, who died in 1895