Headstrong Club
Encyclopedia
The Headstrong Club was an 18th century debating society operating out of an upstairs room at The White Hart in Lewes
whose notable members included Thomas Paine
and Thomas 'Clio' Rickman
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Lewes
Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England and historically of all of Sussex. It is a civil parish and is the centre of the Lewes local government district. The settlement has a history as a bridging point and as a market town, and today as a communications hub and tourist-oriented town...
whose notable members included Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
and Thomas 'Clio' Rickman
Thomas 'Clio' Rickman
Thomas 'Clio' Rickman , was born to a Quaker family, the youngest son of John Rickman , a brewer , and Elizabeth Rickman . Rickman published political pamphlets and broadsides, contributing to the poetry columns of the Black Dwarf and other periodicals...
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Modern Re-launch
The club was relaunched on the 30th January, 1987 on the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas PaineThomas Paine
Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
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