Thomas Paine white plaque

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# The Old Red Lion, Angel Standing beneath the weathered plaque at the Old Red Lion in Angel, you're standing at the birthplace of one of the Enlightenment's most incendiary texts. It was here, within these walls in 1791, that Thomas Paine crafted the opening arguments of *The Rights of Man*, the r...

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Old Red Lion, Angel

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The earliest local historical source in 1828 identifies the Old Red Lion as the place where Tom Paine wrote part 1 of "The Rights of Man" in 1791