#chartism — Public Fediverse posts

George Julian Harney: a new portrait #Chartism #C19th #History chartistancestors.blog/2026/04/23/a...

A new ‘Yankee’ portrait of Geo...

Chartist Lives - now out in hardback, paperback and ebook formats. #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

The People’s Charter in red, blue and gold #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...

The People’s Charter in red, b...

Revisited and rewrote this article which I first posted to Chartist Ancestors back in 2004 #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...

Chartist children: radical nam...

Chartist Lives - the paperback #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

"SLAVES, toil no more! Why delve, and moil, and pine, To glut the tyrant-forgers of your chain?" ---Thomas Cooper the Chartist, The Purgatory of Suicides (1847). #history #poetry #politics #literature #English #Chartism

#C19th #Chartism Prove you’re not a whig

Day 23 of the #Chartism themed #AdventCalendar🎄 Henry Vincent, orator, newspaper editor and temperance advocate www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-vincen... A Chartist a day till Christmas

Henry Vincent, 1813 - 1878 - c...

🗃️ #C19th #Chartism
Queen Victoria was crowned on 28 June 1838, just as radical opinion all across the country was coalescing into Chartism. So what did the not-yet Chartists make of the royal event? Have a read of this…
https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartists-and-the-coronation-of-queen-victoria/

#C19th #Chartism #History
Today in 1848: fifty thousand Londoners marched from Bethnal Green through Clerkenwell to Trafalgar Square to demand the Charter and the release of Irish political prisoners. Joseph Williams, one of those who led the march, was later arrested for making seditious speeches and sentenced to two years in prison. He died in Tothill Fields Bridwell. https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joseph-williams-1809-1849/

#OnThisDay in #Chartism
After 15 years and 755 weeks’ uninterrupted publication, the last ever issue of the Northern Star appeared on 13 March 1852 https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-northern-star/

"On 4 November 1839 the political desires of the working men of south Wales found violent expression in the Chartist Uprising at Newport. Restlessness had been rife among the working population of Britain for many months due to an eagerness to secure suffrage for working men."

https://www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newport-rising-1839

#Chartism #NewportRising

Been writing about what broadside ballads had to say about Chartists in the 1840s #histodons #chartism https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/a-chartist-broadside-ballad/

#Geneadons #Histodons
Just made a video about #Chartism and the Newport Rising for the excellent #AllAboutThatPlace online festival run by the Society of Genealogists, Society for One-Place Studies and others. Great stuff for #FamilyHistory #LocalStudies etc. My vid’s out Friday, but loads already on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQkoy8bkE6cBvXLMGmeH3YpRrbEoRVujq

#Histodons #LondonHistory #WomensHistory
Susanna Inge, Mary Ann Walker and the City of London Female Charter Association. The story of a brief but glorious episode from the 1840s in the history of #Chartism, on the Chartist Ancestors website https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/city-london-female-charter-association/

#Chartism #Histodons
Irish radical James Bronterre O’Brien on the adoption of the six points of the People’s Charter, 1837. New profile at https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/james-bronterre-obrien-1805-1864/

#Histodons #Chartism #WomensHistory
May Paris: committed Chartist from Anstruther, Fife, killed by cholera in Greenwich, August 1842 https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/may-paris-1807-1849/

#Histodons #Chartism #Biography
New on the Chartist Ancestors website: the life of Henry Vincent, Chartist orator turned lecturer on temperance, history and literature https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-vincent-1813-1878/

#Chartism #Histodons
Did you know #Tavistock in #Devon twice elected a Chartist MP? I’ve just found out where he’s buried and added him to my ‘where are they now?’ list. Read more about Samuel Carter at https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/samuel-carter-chartist-mp-1814-1903/

#Chartism #Histodons
Just come across a batch of records for the Chartist James Bronterre O’Brien on
Ancestry. In 1834, aged around 29, he married Sophia St John Bannister, 19, the daughter of a London jeweller, at St George’s Bloomsbury. He’s number three on my list of Chartist lives to add to https://chartistancestors.co.uk

#Chartism #LabourHistory #Histodons
Who killed Henry Hanshard? Meet the Bethnal Green Chartists and discover the monument erected in their name https://chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/08/meet-bethnal-green-chartist-martyrs.html

Playwright Michael Crowley reflects of the challenges of bringing #Chartism and the events of 1842 to the stage in Waiting for Wesley. Now on our website https://sslh.org.uk/2023/07/17/chartism-the-great-strike-of-1842-and-the-possibilities-of-drama/

#Histodons #LabourHistory #Chartism
In 1839, the Chartist George Julian Harney had been arrested at Bedlington in Northumberland and was on bail awaiting his trial for sedition when he sent this letter to his lawyer. Read more on our website… https://sslh.org.uk/2023/04/01/the-chartist-his-lawyer-and-a-matter-of-vital-importance/

#Chartism #Histodons #Victorianists
I recently visited Kensal Green Cemetery in north west London where some of the best known figures in Chartism were buried - including Feargus O’Connor, GWM Reynolds and Henry Hetherington. I’ve written about it and posted some photos on the Chartist Ancestors website; I’ve also provided a map if anyone is interested in making a similar pilgrimage. https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/meet-the-kensal-green-chartists/

#Chartism #LabourHistory #Histodons
The Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor began his political career as a ‘gentleman radical’, inheriting family money and funding the Northern Star newspaper largely from his own pocket. But how much was he worth by the time he died in 1855? I’ve found some probate details that answer the question… https://chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-financial-downfall-of-feargus.html

The aristocratic radical MP Thomas Slingsby Duncombe was the best and most consistent supporter of #Chartism and trade unions in the House of Commons. This print is from the Chartist Northern Star newspaper. Duncombe was an inveterate gambler who lost the family fortune at the card table, and had a very public reputation as a rake. But his private life hid a surprising secret. More for #histodons and #victorianists at https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-slingsby-duncombe-1796-1861/