View Article  Chartism Day 2008: rhetoric, song and the Chartist Gothic
Historians from around the UK and some distance beyond were in Newport, South Wales, at the weekend for the annual Chartism Day conference.

The conference was organised by the Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and – as hosts this year – the South Wales Centre ...   more »

View Article  Who Do You Think You Are?

The current issue of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? family history magazine has two excellent articles on Chartism and the Chartists.

The first, by Dr Malcolm Chase, reader in labour history at the University of Leeds and author of, among many other things, Chartism: A New History...   more »

View Article  Remember 1839 in Newport
The people of Newport and communities along the Heads of the Valley Road are being invited to explore their Chartist heritage and to interpret the events of November 1839 when a Chartist uprising laid siege to the town.

The event, on 12 April, is the latest in a series of ...   more »
View Article  Recognition for a Chartist pub

It is strange to think that what must have been a very basic spit-and-sawdust beerhouse when it opened to serve settlers on the Chartist land colony at O’Connorville back in the 1840s is now considered one of Britain’s best public houses.

The wonderfully named Land of Liberty, Peace and ...   more »

View Article  A day off for the Chartists
Should we have a new bank holiday to commemorate the Chartists who took up arms in Newport in 1839? Paul Flynn...   more »
View Article  Chartist descendents in Newport

The descendents of the Newport Chartists who marched on the town back in 1839 in an attempt to spark a ...   more »

View Article  Commemorate the march on Newport

The series of Chartist commemorative events planned for Newport on the weekend of 3 and 4 November look like being ...   more »

View Article  Chartism? Never heard of it

If you are reading this, then you probably have at least some interest in Chartism. But to what extent does ...   more »

View Article  Gerald Massey - 100 years on

Gerald Massey lived a fascinating life, as a poet and Shakespeare scholar, developer of evolutionary theory and, of course, Chartist....   more »

View Article  Chartist weekend on 3 and 4 November 2007

The weekend of 3 and 4 November sees a series of events in and around Newport to mark the anniversary ...   more »

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Hello and welcome to chartists.net news. My name is Mark Crail, and I set up Chartist Ancestors back in 2003. I have been building it up ever since with the help of many very kind individuals who have provided both information and advice. This blog aims to highlight new additions to the site and developments in the wider world of Chartist studies. I hope you find it and the main site both informative and enjoyable.

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