This blog has a new address online
I am relaunching the Chartist Ancestors Blog on a new platform, which means a change to the website address. From this point on, you should be able to find it at chartistancestors.blog.This change does...
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Women and Chartism: All About That Place 2024
I really enjoyed talking about 'Women and Chartism' for All About That Place 2024. This is the second year I've recorded a short video for the event, which takes place entirely online and has more...
View ArticleOn the Elland Female Radical Association and the demography of women in Chartism
Dorothy Thompson was the first historian to write about Elland’s Female Radical Association, but the story of them rolling the local poor law commissioners in the snow before sending them on their way...
View ArticleChartism Day 2024: in praise of Dorothy Thompson
Chartism Day has now been in existence for two or three times as long as Chartism itself was around (depending on how you define being around). But every year brings new research and fresh ideas. This...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of Robert LeBlond
Robert LeBlond was a leading member of the National Charter Association in its final days, and an important link with middle class reform organisations. But his real interest was in secularism - still...
View ArticleIrish radicals added to the Chartist Ancestors Databank
I have added 143 new names to the Chartist Ancestors Databank, taking the total number of those included to 14,523.This latest batch includes a significant number of Chartists of Irish origin, and is...
View ArticleThe Chartists on the hill: William Lovett, George Jacob Holyoake and Karl...
Highgate Cemetery must be the most famous burial ground in England. This week I paid a visit in search of William Lovett, secretary to the London Working Men’s Association, author of the People’s...
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Feargus O’Connor - last of the gentleman radicals
Feargus O’Connor permeates Chartist Ancestors as he permeated Chartism itself. The two can barely be separated. But up to now I haven’t written a biography of the all-important Chartist leader - ‘The...
View ArticleKennington 1848: the women in white bonnets, the man in the dustman's hat and...
The daguerreotype images of the famous Chartist Kennington Common meeting on 10 April 1848 have fascinated historians since they first came to light in the Royal Collection in the mid-1970s. Though not...
View ArticleA slightly new look for Chartist Ancestors
You may notice that the Chartist Ancestors website has had a bit of a makeover. To be honest, I hope it isn't too noticeable as I was quite happy with the look and feel of it as it was.However, the...
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Register for Chartism Day 2024
Registration is now open for Chartism Day 2024. This year’s conference takes place at the University of Reading on Saturday 7 September - and, as ever, all are welcome.Professor Mike Sanders will be...
View ArticleEmma Miles: the life of a female Chartist activist
Born in 1819, Emma Miles was one of a number of female activists in their early twenties who made the City of London Female Chartist Association something of a media sensation with their unashamed...
View ArticleIn search of Tothill Fields Bridewell
Up in London today I thought I’d have a look at what remains of Tothill Fields Bridewell - the Westminster prison where the Chartist leader Ernest Jones was imprisoned in 1848 for sedition.Here, just a...
View ArticlePalmerston and the publican: a tale of betrayal
Plans for an armed rising in London during the summer of 1848 were compromised from the start. Infiltrated by police informers and hopelessly ill-prepared, the Chartists and Irish Confederates who...
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Book review: Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-Class Leadership and...
Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829-1839, by John Sanders (Breviary Stuff Publications, 2024)When in the autumn of...
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COURAGE: Luddites-Peterloo-Chartists-Suffragettes
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 currently working on a new project - and it includes...
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More names for the Chartist Ancestors databank
I have added another 150 names to the Chartist Ancestors databank. This takes the total to 14,381.Delegates to the first Chartist convention, meeting at the British Coffee House, 4 February 1839.The...
View ArticleChartists and special constables: the Cumberland magistrates' embarrassing...
In the summer of 1839, as tensions ran high amid rumours of general strikes and armed risings, and the Chartists of Cumberland held threatening moonlit meetings, the mayor of Carlisle and the county’s...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of the tumultuous John Dover
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. But when Chartism came along, he found a cause where he could...
View ArticleIn search of Helen Macfarlane: the elusive ‘shooting star’ of Chartism
Red Antigone: The Life and World of Helen Macfarlane, by David Black (BPC Publishers, 2024)On a spring day in 1860, parishioners at the tiny fourteenth-century church at Baddiley, deep in the heart of...
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