Chartist Ancestors Blog
Friday 3 May 2024
Book review: Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829-1839
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Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829-1839 , by John Sander...
Wednesday 17 April 2024
COURAGE: Luddites-Peterloo-Chartists-Suffragettes
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If like me you were a fan of graphic artist Polyp’s graphic novels about Peterloo and Tom Paine, you will be delighted to know that he is cu...
Tuesday 9 April 2024
More names for the Chartist Ancestors databank
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I have added another 150 names to the Chartist Ancestors databank. This takes the total to 14,381. Delegates to the first Chartist conventio...
Friday 5 April 2024
Chartists and special constables: the Cumberland magistrates' embarrassing mistake
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In the summer of 1839, as tensions ran high amid rumours of general strikes and armed risings, and the Chartists of Cumberland held threaten...
Monday 1 April 2024
The rise and fall of the tumultuous John Dover
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John Dover was a ‘noisy fellow’, a man accustomed to causing trouble on behalf of Norwich’s dominant Whig faction… if they paid him enough. ...
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