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Saturday, March 14
Edward Truelove's Chartist bookshop
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mark
on Sat 14 Mar 2009 18:04 GMT
Edward Truelove's bookshop in John Street must have been a familiar haunt for many London Chartists. If ever there were Chartist fundraising or social events in the capital, Truelove's shop was sure to be listed in the Northern Star as one of the principal outlets for ticket sales. In addition, ... more » Friday, March 13
Who framed Samuel Holberry?
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mark
on Fri 13 Mar 2009 10:28 GMT
Samuel Holberry died in gaol, a Chartist martyr, his health broken by two years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. But was he really planning an armed uprising that would seize control of Sheffield and spark insurrection across the north of England? Up to ... more »
The poetry of Chartism analysed
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mark
on Fri 13 Mar 2009 10:02 GMT
Sunday, March 1
170th anniversary of the Newport Chartist rising
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mark
on Sun 01 Mar 2009 17:01 GMT
A series of events to mark the 170th anniversary of the Chartist rising at Newport in South Wales begins on Saturday 18 April with events in Merthyr Tudfel market square. Events continue through the year and on into January 2010 - the 170th anniversary of the day on which the ... more » |
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More than 1,000 poems appeared in the pages of the Northern Star, the principal Chartist newspaper, from its launch in 1838 to closure in 1852. This body of work, possibly constituting the most widely read collection of poetry in the Victorian era, is now examined in a new book, titled ... 