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 »
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Tuesday, June 24
Cooper and O'Neill: the Chartist prisoners
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on Tue 24 Jun 2008 13:37 BST
Thursday, June 19
Isaac Ickeringill: 'Notorious' Bingley Chartist
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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
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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 » |
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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.