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Friday, June 12
Tracing your Chartist and trade union ancestors - the book
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mark
on Fri 12 Jun 2009 11:08 BST
Friday, March 13
The poetry of Chartism analysed
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mark
on Fri 13 Mar 2009 10:02 GMT
Sunday, November 30
Chartism: A New History - some views
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mark
on Sun 30 Nov 2008 14:21 GMT
If ever I am asked to recommend a single book about Chartism and the Chartists, I suggest Malcolm Chase's Chartism: A New History Published in 2007, it is the first significant overview of the Chartist movement to be published in many years, and is in addition both eminently helpful ... more » Thursday, September 4
Mark Hovell and The Chartist Movement
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mark
on Thu 04 Sep 2008 10:45 BST
 It has been claimed that between 1854 and 1916, “not a single book of permanent value on the history of Chartism had been published in England”.This is certainly going too far: the autobiographies and memoirs published by Thomas Cooper (1872), George Jacob Holyoake (1892) and W E Adams (1903) ... more » Monday, July 21
William Lovett: autobiography of a Chartist
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mark
on Mon 21 Jul 2008 19:19 BST
Importantly, William Lovett also wrote and published an autobiography. The Life and Struggles of ... more » Tuesday, June 24
Cooper and O'Neill: the Chartist prisoners
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mark
on Tue 24 Jun 2008 13:37 BST
Stephen Roberts’ new book on Thomas Cooper and Arthur O’Neill is being launched at the Birmingham & Midland Institute in Birmingham city centre on Saturday 13 September.
The book, titled The Chartist Prisoners, focuses on the lifelong friendship between Cooper and O’Neill formed when they shared a cell in Stafford ... more » Sunday, May 18
Some history reading for the summer...
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mark
on Sun 18 May 2008 15:18 BST
Amazon is currently having a sale, so if you're looking for something to read now – or to put aside for your summer holidays, it's worth checking out their cut-price history books. When I last looked, they had Thursday, March 27
More Chartist histories and autobiographies
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mark
on Thu 27 Mar 2008 15:00 GMT
Google Books and other services are increasingly providing free access to the full text of important but now out-of-copyright books written by and ... more » Thursday, February 28
Interview: Paul Pickering on Feargus O'Connor
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mark
on Thu 28 Feb 2008 13:59 GMT
 A new biography of Feargus O'Connor, written by Dr Paul Pickering (left), is due for publication later this spring. O'Connor was probably the single most significant figure in Chartism for more than a decade, and was the only person ever elected to Parliament specifically on a Chartist ticket.A Chartist ... more » Sunday, November 11
Thursday, September 27
Tuesday, September 11
Chartist lives and Chartist histories
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mark
on Tue 11 Sep 2007 11:06 BST
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More than 1,000 poems appeared in the pages of the Northern Star, the principal Chartist newspaper, from its launch in 1838 to closure in 1852. This body of work, possibly constituting the most widely read collection of poetry in the Victorian era, is now examined in a new book, titled ... 
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William Lovett occupies a pivotal place in the history of Chartism.
He drafted the People’s Charter, was secretary to the London Working Men’s
Association, and subsequently served as secretary to the first Chartist
Convention of 1839.