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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 » Saturday, August 30
Feargus O'Connor: died 30 August 1855
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mark
on Sat 30 Aug 2008 17:26 BST
 Feargus O’Connor was never happier in life than when at the centre of a controversy. In death, the Chartist movement’s greatest leader remained also its most disputed figure, blamed by earlier generations of historians for his bluster but now at least partially rehabilitated and admired once more.Today marks the 153rd ... 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 » Friday, May 2
Chartism's high tide: 2 May 1842
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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 » Friday, March 7
Who Do You Think You Are?
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mark
on Fri 07 Mar 2008 13:05 GMT
The first, by Dr Malcolm Chase, reader in labour history at
the Thursday, March 6
Chartist riots in Trafalgar Square
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mark
on Thu 06 Mar 2008 01:00 GMT
Today sees the 160th anniversary of the first serious disturbances in Britain associated with the Chartist resurgence of 1848. There is a page on Chartist Ancestors dealing with the Trafalgar Square riots, which escalated into three days of disturbances, with windows broken throughout the City and along Regent ... more » Sunday, February 17
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On 2 May 1842, the second of the three great national
Chartist petitions demanding the Six Points was presented to Parliament.
The current issue of the BBC's 