Register for Chartism Day 2023

A report of Chartism Day 2023 can be found on the Society for the Study of Labour History Website. Click here to read it.

Chartism Day 2023 is taking place on Saturday 17 June. It will be returning to Sheffield (this time to Sheffield Hallam University) for the first time in a decade.

Please register here if you are planning to attend.

Join us to hear about new Chartist research and recent publications, and to meet others with an interest in the field. Chartism Day typically attracts a diverse audience of new and established academics, independent researchers, local and family historians, and others who simply want to find out more about this key historical movement.

The event on Saturday 17 June is open to everyone with an interest in Chartism and labour history.

Bob Jones of Northern Herald Books will be running a book stall with a range of titles for sale on socialism, labour & economic history, economics, industrial relations, women's history – and, of course, Chartism.

Chartism Day 2023 is dedicated to the memory of Stephen Roberts (1958-2022).

The full programme is set out below or can be downloaded as a pdf.

VENUE

Room 1028, Owen Building, Sheffield City Centre, England, S1 2LX. Please note an accessible entrance to the Owen Building can be found on Howard Street.

PROGRAMME

9.15 Registration

Welcome: Joan Allen and Richard Allen

Jennifer Reid – Chartist song

Joan Allen tribute to Stephen Roberts

Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University) Women, Late Chartism, and the Land Plan in Nottinghamshire

Mark Crail (independent scholar) 'My Dear Chinery...' Feargus O'Connor and the Business of Chartism

11.15 Break – Northern Herald Books bookstall open

Joshua Dight (Edge Hill University) Memory and Chartism’s Paper Pantheon Deconstructed

12.15 Lunch – bookstall open

Jennifer Reid: Chartist song: Shabby Feargus

Alison Denham (independent scholar) Mr Cooper and Citizen Engels: What Went Wrong?

Duncan Hamilton (University of Manchester) ‘Command will, with the progress of years, relax into persuasion’: Communitarian Idyll in Thomas Cooper’s Captain Cobler

Kevin Morgan (University of Manchester) Edouard Dolléans: Chartism’s First Modern Historian?

3.30 Break – bookstall open

Keynote Lecture: Fabrice Bensimon (Sorbonne Université, Paris) The Northern Star, the Land Plan, and the 1848 Revolution: Traces of the Chartists in France

5.00 pm event finishes