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Tuesday, June 24
The Northern Star: a Chartist newspaper in numbers
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mark
on Tue 24 Jun 2008 14:01 BST
 Throughout 1841 and 1842, anyone reading the Northern Star would have come across the name of its proprietor, Feargus O’Connor, an average of 40 times in each weekly issue.Over the course of the 15 years from 1838 to 1852 during which O’Connor owned and ran the paper, his name ... more »
Cooper and O'Neill: the Chartist prisoners
by
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 » Thursday, June 19
Isaac Ickeringill: 'Notorious' Bingley Chartist
by
mark
on Thu 19 Jun 2008 12:00 BST
The name of Isaac Ickersgill appears briefly in R G Gammage’s History of the Chartist Movement. Along with a number of other Bingley men, Isaac was charged with having rescued two local Chartists from police custody in the summer of 1848. Not for the first time, however, Gammage made a ... more » Tuesday, June 17
James Watson - Chartist and campaigner for free speech
by
mark
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 09:22 BST
A veteran of the struggle of the unstamped press in the 1820s and 1830s, he became ... more » Sunday, June 8
Chartism Day 2008: rhetoric, song and the Chartist Gothic
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mark
on Sun 08 Jun 2008 13:46 BST
 Historians from around the The conference was organised by the Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and – as hosts this year – the South Wales Centre ... more » |
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James Watson was one of the six working men whose names
appear (alongside those of six radical MPs) on the People’s Charter, and played
a prominent role in establishing free speech in this country.