Chartist Ancestors Blog

It is not every day that you find an account in the official record of an ancestor threatening to crush soldiers opposing a Chartist monster...

I recently spent a very enjoyable hour and a half chatting about all things Chartism with professional genealogist Natalie at Genealogy Stor...

On 2 May 1842, the second of the three great national Chartist petitions demanding the Six Points was presented to Parliament. As I hav...

How many names were there on each of the Chartist petitions, and which towns contributed the most signatories? For that matter, how many Cha...

Did you know that there were not three but four great Chartist petitions, and that the one that has been largely forgotten came within a s...