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 about Chartists from the 1840s onwards, and some earlier histories from the 1910s and 1920s are also being published online.
I have now overhauled the Further Research page on Chartist Ancestors to take account of more recent updates.
These include:
* an account published in 1843 of the trial of Feargus O’Connor and 58 other
Chartist leaders at Lancaster;
* George Jacob Holyoake’s two volume Life and Letters; and
* three important early histories of Chartism by Frank Rosenblatt (1916),
Preston W Slosson (1916) and Julius West (1918).
Further Research also includes links to autobiographical works by John James Bezer, Thomas Cooper, W J Linton, Samuel Bamford and W E Adams, plus links to some great websites, including Richard Brown’s History Zone and John Leech’s Chartist sketches for Punch.
