“s plan, to create a model socialist utopia to coexist with contemporary society and prove its superiority over time, was insufficient to create a new society. In their view, Owen”
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, and 'believed in lifelong education, establishing an Institute for the Formation…
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Born 14 May 1771 · Died 17 November 1858 · Q179374
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: So Nigel Farage has beaten a man in a bin. But he's in deep trouble, and he knows it | Owen Jones
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1994· 1 entry
The Co-operative Bank installed a copy of the Newtown statue in front of its headquarters on Balloon Street, Manchester
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1990· 1 entry
“Bradlaugh and Secularism: 'The Province of the Real'”
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1956· 1 entry
A bronze statue of Owen by Gilbert Bayes was installed in a small garden dedicated to Owen in Newtown
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1902· 1 entry
The co-operative movement erected Art Nouveau railings around the tomb as a monument to him
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1871· 1 entry
The "Seven Principles of Spiritualism", used by their National Union as "the basis of its religious philosophy"
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1858· 2 entries
Died 1858-11-17.
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“Robert Owen and the Co-operative movement”
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1854· 1 entry
Aged 83, Owen converted to spiritualism after a series of sittings with Maria B
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1850· 1 entry
And argued in support of widows and married women's property and divorce rights
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1847· 1 entry
Taught natural science at Western Military Institute in Tennessee from 1849 to 1859, and earned a medical degree in 1858
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1839· 1 entry
That his principles were the creed of many of them
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1835· 1 entry
Married Robert Henry Fauntleroy, a civil engineer from Virginia living in New Harmony
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1832· 1 entry
Owen opened the National Equitable Labour Exchange system, a time-based currency in which the exchange of goods was effected using labour notes; this system superseded the usual means of exchange and middlemen
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1831· 1 entry
In County Clare, Ireland, and at Tytherley, begun in 1839 in Hampshire, England
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1828· 1 entry
Owen returned to London, where he continued to champion the working class, lead in developing co-operatives and the trade union movement, and support child labour legislation and free co-educational schools
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1827· 3 entries
But many of its scientists, educators, artists and other inhabitants, including Owen's four sons, Robert Dale, William, David Dale, and Richard Dale Owen, and his daughter Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy, remained at New Harmo
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But died of unknown causes at the age of 40
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And resided at New Harmony for several years
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1825· 1 entry
When Abram Combe, an Owenite, attempted a utopian experiment at Orbiston, near Glasgow, but this failed after about two years
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1824· 1 entry
Moved to the United States and put most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary for his utopian society
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1817· 1 entry
Owen publicly claimed that all religions were false
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1814· 1 entry
Decided in 1824 to relocate to Pennsylvania
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1813· 1 entry
Owen authored and published A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, the first of four essays he wrote to explain the principles behind his philosophy of socialistic refo
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1810· 1 entry
And set about instituting the policy at New Lanark
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1800· 1 entry
“Rules and Regulations for the Inhabitants of New Lanark”
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1771· 1 entry
Born 1771-05-14.
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