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
Gaol from 1843-44. Both men had been convicted following the wave of
strikes that hit the Potteries and Black Country.
O’Neill
went on to become a significant peace lecturer, addressing working
class audiences; Cooper wrote poetry, including his famous prison poem,
The Purgatory of Suicides, lectured and edited radical journals.
Dorothy
Thompson, whose many works on Chartism include The Early Chartists
(1971), The Chartists : Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution
(1986) and Outsiders : Class, Gender and Nation (1993), will be
introducing Stephen Roberts.
The
event is organised by A People's History of the West Midlands and
begins at 2pm. More information and free tickets are available from Pete
on 07977 057902 or by email:
peopleshistoryofthewestmidlands@yahoo.co.uk.
* Stephen Roberts’ Chartism and the Chartists website has had something of a redesign.
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