The programme and registration details for Chartism Day 2016 are now confirmed. Details of the speakers and topics are set out below - and the date is set for Saturday 11 June 2016. Sign up now to reserve your place.
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Programme
9.00–9.30
Registration.
Room CBK 107, Binks Building, University of Chester, Parkgate Road Campus CH1 4BJ
9.30–9.45
Introduction (Dr Michael Huggins)
9.45–11.00
Dr Michael Sanders (Manchester)
“Tilting with the Parsons”: Chartism’s challenge to the Churches, 1840-1842
Victoria Clarke (Leeds)
Pledges and pint pot politics: journalistic representations of the rise of temperance Chartism
11.00-11.30
Tea and coffee break
11.30–12.45
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
12.45-1.45
Buffet lunch
1.45-3.00
Dr Kate Bowan (Australian National University)
The Marseillaise and British radicalism
Dr Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam)
Chartism and Repeal: parallel movements
3.00-3.30
Tea and coffee break
3.30-4.45
Professor Paul Pickering
“The Celestial Empire”: Chartists and the Far East
Dr Katrina Navickas
The meanings of space and place in the Chartist movement
4.45-5.00
Final comments
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