Latest posts tagged with #chartism on Bluesky
Eureka Stockade, 1854: Australia’s only armed uprising. The Ballarat Reform League Charter drawn up largely by English Chartists and Irish Confederates made the same political demands as the People’s Charter
#Chartism #C19th #History
Chartist Lives - now out in hardback, paperback and ebook formats.
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Catching up on #UniversityChallenge #Chartism
Wishing #ChartismDay was held in Ballarat or Toronto
New blog post:
Many Chartists made their way to Australia in the 1850s and contributed significantly to the country’s democracy movement. Their efforts have not been forgotten.
#Chartism #C19th
chartistancestors.blog/2026/02/28/r...
Commemoration of the Red Ribbon Rebellion in the Australian goldfields. Lots of Chartist involvement. The flag, first flown in 1853, now hangs in Bendigo Trades Hall (just round the corner from the stones). Could be the only surviving Chartist banner anywhere in the world!
#Chartism #C19th #History
Cartoon shows the scene of the Chartist 'riot' in Birmingham 1839, with giant large London policemen attacking the crowd. Text: Chartism Day 2026. 19 September, Warwick.
Chartism Day 2026
This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link.
#Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP
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A pile of books, all the same, copies of Chartist Lives by Mark Crail
#Chartism #C19th #History
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
Blog post: A letter to Ireland - news of the political exiles of 1848 #Chartism
chartistancestors.blog/2026/01/22/n...
The People’s Charter in red, blue and gold #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...
Whatever happened to Elizabeth Feargus Bronterre Benbow Chartist Wheeler?
#Chartism #C19th #FamilyHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
I’ve added a new biog to Chartist Ancestors. Hugh Craig had a reputation as a radical in his home town of Kilmarnock and was Ayrshire’s delegate to the First Convention, but he resigned his seat and ended his life a Tory
#C19th #Chartism #BritishPolitics
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/hugh-craig-1...
Revisited and rewrote this article which I first posted to Chartist Ancestors back in 2004 #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
Pile of green books showing just the spines on which are the title ‘Chartist Lives’ and the author name ‘Mark Crail’
#Chartism #BookSky #History
Forty-two inspirational, committed, tumultuous, stirring, eccentric, breathtaking, unwavering, astonishing, entertaining, hapless, tragic and reprehensible Chartist lives for a tenner…
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Cover of book Chartist Lives and QR code link to amazon.
Something for the weekend?
Meeting all your #Chartism needs this Christmas
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Like the Chartists themselves, Chartist Lives is not confined to the UK.
#C19th #History #Chartism
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Two books titled Chartist Lives inside an opened cardboard box.
Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
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Book cover. Dark green background. Text: Chartist Lives. 42 pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists. Mark Crail
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
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SLAVES, toil no more! Why delve, and moil, and pine, To glut the tyrant-forgers of your chain? Slaves, toil no more! Up, from the midnight mine, Summon your swarthy thousands to the plain ; Beneath the bright sun marshalled, swell the strain Of liberty; and, while the lordlings view Your banded hosts, with stricken heart and brain, Shout, as one man,-' Toil we no more renew, Until the Many cease their slavery to the Few!' II. We'll crouch, and toil, and weave, no more to weep!' Exclaim your brothers from the weary loom: Yea, now, they swear, with one resolve, dread, deep, We'll toil no more to win a pauper's doom!' And, while the millions swear, fell Famine's gloom Spreads from their haggard faces like a cloud Big with the fear and darkness of the tomb. How, 'neath its terrors, are the tyrants bowed! Slaves, toil no more to starve! Go forth and tame the Proud!
"SLAVES, toil no more! Why delve, and moil, and pine,
To glut the tyrant-forgers of your chain?"
---Thomas Cooper the Chartist, The Purgatory of Suicides (1847).
#history #poetry #politics #literature #English #Chartism
In Archives Week in 2021, the Peoples Collection of Wales placed on-line a very large number of documents relating to what happened on the day and subsequent trials... now been transcribed and versions can be read more easily
www.peoplescollection.wales/users/10004
A remarkable resource. #Chartism
A part of our nation’s history that shouldn’t be forgotten. ✊🏻
Something that my birthplace and the entire country should be proud of. 💪🏻
#chartism #newport #southwales #wales #history #doyouhearthepeoplesing
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
#Chartism is an ideal beyond the terms of any dominant group in the society, and is more than an expression of democratic aspirations; [it] is also an assertion of an individual dignity transcending #class
- The Long Revolution, 1961
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
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Good to see a bit of #Chartism at @tate.bsky.social this morning. William Cuffay was briefly a guest at Millbank prison, which stood on the site now occupied by the Tate, before being transported to Australia 1/2
Chartism Day is two weeks today. All welcome but you need to book
#Chartism #Yorkshire #C19th
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
Woodcut portrait in profile of a young man with dark hair and side whiskers. The subtitle reads 'Robert Knox'.
Delighted to have been able to track down the life story of Robert Knox, County Durham's delegate to the First Chartist Convention. Another Chartist who left Britain for a better life Australia. #Chartism #C19th #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/robert-knox/
An armed rising by London Chartists set to begin #OnThisDay 16 August 1848 was foiled when police raided the Orange Tree and Angel public houses, making 24 arrests before dispersing a large crowd gathered at Seven Dials
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/orange-tree-...
All welcome. Speakers include @vjctorianist.bsky.social @drdavesteele.bsky.social @dnhamilton.bsky.social & many others not on here!
#Chartism #C19th #History #Yorkshire
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