The current issue of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? family
history magazine has two excellent articles on Chartism and the Chartists.
The first, by Dr Malcolm Chase, reader in labour history at
the , focuses on the events on and
after 10 April 1848 and the Kennington Common rally.
The article includes some very generous plugs for Chartist Ancestors and how it can help family historians with their research. Many thanks, Malcolm.
The second tells how Sylvia Taylor discovered her Chartist
ancestor, Wright Beatty, and the role he played in the
This second article is written by Leslie James, one of the
organisers of the Chartist commemorative events in
