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Friday, May 16
How to search the Northern Star for Chartist ancestors
by
mark
on Fri 16 May 2008 14:48 BST
The Northern Star was the most important Chartist newspaper of the period, and remains ... more » Tuesday, May 13
The Northern Star is now online
by
mark
on Tue 13 May 2008 14:24 BST
Go straight to the ... more »
Profile: Peter Bussey - exiled revolutionary
by
mark
on Tue 13 May 2008 11:00 BST
While the careful and politically astute artisans of the London Working Men’s Association were natural behind-the-scenes influencers of politicians and government, Bussey, a Bradford ... more » Thursday, May 8
William Lovett, born 8 May 1800
by
mark
on Thu 08 May 2008 05:00 BST
 Chartist anniversaries fall thick and fast in May. On 7 May 1839, the first Chartist petition was presented to Parliament, and today
is the birthday of William Lovett, the man who wrote the text of the People’s
Charter and served as secretary to the First Chartist Convention of 1839.
Lovett ... more » Tuesday, May 6
Profile: Robert Lowery - Newcastle Chartist
by
mark
on Tue 06 May 2008 16:00 BST
Born in 1809, he first became active in radical politics as secretary to the Newcastle Political Union during the Great Reform Act agitation of 1831 and 1832. By the time of ... more » Friday, May 2
Chartism's high tide: 2 May 1842
by
mark
on Fri 02 May 2008 15:29 BST
As I have pointed out before, there were in fact six petitions in all, but those of 1839, 1842 and 1848 were the three that Chartism is remembered ... more » Thursday, May 1
Profile: Thomas Rayner Smart - veteran Chartist patriot
by
mark
on Thu 01 May 2008 13:00 BST
While representing Loughborough and Leicester at the convention, Smart was profiled by The Charter newspaper. Both the profile and ... more » |
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Having had a little time to play around with the new online
version of the 
A free and fully searchable edition of the Northern Star is
now available online. Although still officially in a beta (test) version, you
can find this important Chartist newspaper on the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition website along with a
number of other papers from the period.
Peter Bussey was everything the originators of the People’s
Charter disliked and feared about the mass of disgruntled and distressed
working people who flooded into Chartism.
Robert Lowery lived an extraordinarily full political life
for a man who died at just 54 years of age. 
On 2 May 1842, the second of the three great national
Chartist petitions demanding the Six Points was presented to Parliament.
Thomas Rayner Smart was a largely self-taught working man
whose scruffy greatcoat and battered hat marked him out from the generality of
middle-class delegates to the First Chartist Convention of 1839.