The annual Chartism Day conference returns to Chester this year. The event takes place on Saturday 11 June and all are welcome – but please register beforehand via this email link.
Taking place at the University of Chester Department of History and Archaeology, speakers include:
- Kate Bowan (Canberra): The Marseillaise and British radicalism
- Victoria Clarke (Leeds): Pledges and pint pot politics: journalistic representations of the rise of temperance Chartism
- Jacob Dengate (Aberystwyth): The “time honoured humbug of our ancestors”: Helen Macfarlane’s critique of the British constitution and late Chartism, 1849-50
- Josh Gibson (Cambridge): Chartism and the age of democratic revolutions
- Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire): The meanings of space and place in the Chartist movement
- Paul Pickering (Canberra): ‘The Celestial Empire’: Chartists and the Far East
- Matthew Roberts (Sheffield): Chartism and Repeal: parallel movements
- Michael Sanders (Manchester): 'Tilting with the Parsons': Chartism's challenge to the Churches, 1840-1842
