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Tuesday, April 29
Profile: William Villiers Sankey, Chartist aristocrat
by
mark
on Tue 29 Apr 2008 13:16 BST
While representing Edinburgh at the convention, Sankey was profiled by The Charter newspaper... more » Thursday, April 24
Northern Star: Chartist newspaper online
by
mark
on Thu 24 Apr 2008 19:00 BST
The three-year Nineteenth Century Serials Edition project will culminate on that day ... more » Tuesday, April 22
Chartism and the Labour Parliament of 1854
by
mark
on Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:14 BST
There is no clear date at which Chartism came to an end. For many, the disappointments ... more » Sunday, April 20
Chartists.net: beware of spoof emails
by
mark
on Sun 20 Apr 2008 17:53 BST
Please note that the chartists.net domain name is never used to send outgoing email. If, over the past few days, you have received email apparently from “buttress@chartists.net”, then I can assure you that it did not originate from this website. In short, you have been the subject of an email ... more » Friday, April 18
John James Bezer and a minor Victorian scandal
by
mark
on Fri 18 Apr 2008 10:00 BST
His story apparently ends some time in 1852, when former comrades inquiring about unpaid ... more » Tuesday, April 15
200 more contributors to the Frost Defence Fund
by
mark
on Tue 15 Apr 2008 15:00 BST
The failed Chartist uprising at Newport in December 1839
came as a huge shock to many Chartists. Those who had prepared for similar
rebellions across the North of England but had been dissuaded from acting must
have been particularly affected by the bloody end to the Welsh rising.
With Frost ... more » Saturday, April 12
In search of GWM Reynolds...
by
mark
on Sat 12 Apr 2008 14:09 BST
GWM Reynolds (as he was more usually known) first achieved notoriety in the Chartist movement after taking the ... more » Sunday, April 6
Profile: Peter McDouall - Chartist hero
by
mark
on Sun 06 Apr 2008 11:59 BST
Gaoled twice, losing a daughter during one period of imprisonment due to the terrible conditions suffered by his family, and dying at ... more » Thursday, April 3
Henry Vincent and the 'Welsh republic'
by
mark
on Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:49 BST
The move has, predictably, angered local Labour politicians, who ... more » Wednesday, April 2
Chartism and the Chartists in university archives
by
mark
on Wed 02 Apr 2008 10:39 BST
So it is good to see that Archives Hub, put together ... more » |
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William Villiers Sankey came from aristocratic stock. The son of an Irish volunteer and Member of Parliament, he moved among the political elite of his day. Yet he also served as a delegate to the First Chartist Convention of 1839.
The single most important source for anyone looking for a
Chartist ancestor goes online on Tuesday 13 May, when a free, publicly
available and fully searchable run of the Northern Star newspaper is due to be
released online.
The Labour Parliament of 1854 was one of the last
significant Chartist gatherings. A page on the Labour Parliament which also
lists the 40 delegates who attended has now been added to Chartist Ancestors.
John James Bezer (1816-1888) was a relatively minor Chartist
figure, remembered primarily because of his incomplete 
I am delighted to report that the last resting place of the
Chartist journalist George William MacArthur Reynolds has now been added to the
Peter Murray McDouall, a Scottish-born doctors radicalised
by his exposure to factory conditions in industrial Lancashire, was one of the
most significant figures in Chartism for a decade. 
Chartism appears to have become something of a hot political issue in 
Academic
institutions have been gathering up archives dealing with Chartism for many decades.
But working out what exists where can be a problem – not least because Chartism
is just a small aspect of many of these collections.