A month of activities to mark the anniversary of the Chartist uprising in Newport, South Wales, begins this week with a lecture at Merthyr Tydfil library followed by a guided walk and coach tour, plays and other events.
Thousands of men from across south Wales marched on Newport on 4 ... more »
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Tuesday, October 14
Chartist commemorative events in Newport
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on Tue 14 Oct 2008 08:50 BST
Sunday, June 8
Chartism Day 2008: rhetoric, song and the Chartist Gothic
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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 » 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 Tuesday, March 4
Remember 1839 in Newport
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mark
on Tue 04 Mar 2008 09:21 GMT
 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 » Monday, February 18
Recognition for a Chartist pub
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on Mon 18 Feb 2008 09:33 GMT
The wonderfully named Land of Liberty, Peace and ... more » Friday, November 30
Tuesday, November 6
Tuesday, October 30
Commemorate the march on Newport
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on Tue 30 Oct 2007 12:36 GMT
The series of Chartist commemorative events planned for Newport on the weekend of 3 and 4 November look like being ... more » Monday, October 15
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The current issue of the BBC's 
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 