Broadside.- Chartists.- Birmingham Bull Ring Riots.- Dreadful Attempt to Fire Birmingham, printed broadside, crudely printed occasionally obscuring text, creases, faint spotting and soiling, laid onto paper, c.375 x 160 mm., Nottingham, J. Plant, [1839] § Dreadful Riots at Newcastle. From the Sun of this Day, printed broadside, creases, light staining, one or two tiny marginal holes, laid onto paper, ex-Nottingham library with neat ink-stamp to verso, c.370 x 250 mm., Nottingham, [c.1843]; (2).

⁂ the first rare. Seemingly unrecorded.

The Bull Ring riots started on 4th July 1839, after the Mayor had read the riot act before a meeting of the Chartists. When the meeting failed to disperse, the Mayor called in 60 officers to break up the meeting. There followed widespread rioting, vandalism and destruction of property. The riots continued in later July after the Chartists petition was rejected by parliament.