Our curator, Colin Laker, has written a new short essay on Robert Owen and slavery. We have now added it to all the articles and writings about Robert Owen on […]
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Ways we remember him
The people of Newtown have gathered and celebrated the birthday of Robert Owen on 14th May in many ways over the years. Cakes have been baked and eaten. Children have […]
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249th birthday
Robert Owen was born on 14th May in 1771, at No.2 Broad Street, Newtown, in Powys Mid Wales. Regarded as Father of the Cooperative Movement and Trade Unions, he was […]
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About Robert Owen
Robert Owen was born in 1771. At 10, he was sent to London to be apprenticed as a draper and by his early twenties he was a successful manager in […]
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