Mark Crail
@markcrail.bsky.social
Chartism and other #C19th stuff. Chartist Ancestors website, author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, web editor @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader. https://linktr.ee/markcrail
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In 1918, The Representation of the People Act received royal assent.
@emmapeplow.bsky.social explains how the Act gave the parliamentary vote to some women for the first time as well as millions of previously excluded working men.
@emmapeplow.bsky.social explains how the Act gave the parliamentary vote to some women for the first time as well as millions of previously excluded working men.
The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure
Dr Emma Peplow, explains not only what this Act meant for women, but for men and the whole electoral system
historyofparliament.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 AM
In 1918, The Representation of the People Act received royal assent.
@emmapeplow.bsky.social explains how the Act gave the parliamentary vote to some women for the first time as well as millions of previously excluded working men.
@emmapeplow.bsky.social explains how the Act gave the parliamentary vote to some women for the first time as well as millions of previously excluded working men.
Norwich Chartist John Dover was baptised at St Paul’s church #OnThisDay 1804. A ‘noisy fellow’ who upset his fellow Chartists and the authorities once too often, he was transported for life to Van Diemen’s Land in 1845. His story is one of dozens told in Chartist Lives www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Chartist Lives: Forty-two pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists: Amazon.co.uk: Crail, Mark: 9798269123264: Books
Buy Chartist Lives: Forty-two pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists by Crail, Mark (ISBN: 9798269123264) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Norwich Chartist John Dover was baptised at St Paul’s church #OnThisDay 1804. A ‘noisy fellow’ who upset his fellow Chartists and the authorities once too often, he was transported for life to Van Diemen’s Land in 1845. His story is one of dozens told in Chartist Lives www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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See my site for accurate & praised visual histories of Paine & Peterloo, other books ridiculing superstition and irrationality... and tons of harsh political cartoons to view for free.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
See my site for accurate & praised visual histories of Paine & Peterloo, other books ridiculing superstition and irrationality... and tons of harsh political cartoons to view for free.
polyp.org.uk/books/
polyp.org.uk/books/
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#Chartism #C19th #History
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#Chartism #C19th #History
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Nice statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner and cat on South Street. Wasn’t there last time I was in Dorchester.
February 4, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Nice statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner and cat on South Street. Wasn’t there last time I was in Dorchester.
#Chartism #C19th #History
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#Chartism #C19th #History
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that I am busy trying to flog copies of Chartist Lives. It’s full of amazing stories and it’s £19.99 in hardback, £9.99 in paperback and just £8.99 for kindle.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
In the summer of 1848 a young artist linked English Chartists intent on revolution and Irish nationalists planning an armed rising. Discover the amazing life story of William Paul Dowling on Chartist Ancestors
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
January 30, 2026 at 5:25 PM
In the summer of 1848 a young artist linked English Chartists intent on revolution and Irish nationalists planning an armed rising. Discover the amazing life story of William Paul Dowling on Chartist Ancestors
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
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Online talk on The Radical Life of Thomas Paine, on his 289th birthday - Monday 9 February, 7pm - with @peterloomemorial.bsky.social chair Polyp, who published a Fantastical Visual Biography of Paine. Book now!
humanists.uk/events/in-co...
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January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Online talk on The Radical Life of Thomas Paine, on his 289th birthday - Monday 9 February, 7pm - with @peterloomemorial.bsky.social chair Polyp, who published a Fantastical Visual Biography of Paine. Book now!
humanists.uk/events/in-co...
polyp.org.uk/books/paine-...
humanists.uk/events/in-co...
polyp.org.uk/books/paine-...
Can’t see Trump playing this one at future rallies
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Can’t see Trump playing this one at future rallies
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My portrait of Cuffay derived from his sketch: his face combined with a few photos of very similar looking modern blokes.
From: polyp.org.uk/books/courag...
From: polyp.org.uk/books/courag...
January 29, 2026 at 10:37 AM
My portrait of Cuffay derived from his sketch: his face combined with a few photos of very similar looking modern blokes.
From: polyp.org.uk/books/courag...
From: polyp.org.uk/books/courag...
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#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
Seeing lots of hospitality business owners on TV complaining about the cost of increases in the minimum wage. Rather fewer people on minimum wage being asked what that extra 50p an hour has meant for them.
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Seeing lots of hospitality business owners on TV complaining about the cost of increases in the minimum wage. Rather fewer people on minimum wage being asked what that extra 50p an hour has meant for them.
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Only 5 weeks until @titanbooks.bsky.social officially publishes my novel JITTERBUG, and I'm getting excited. This is a special book, and I think you're going to love it. Give yourself a little treat and preorder it today from your favourite bookshop!
January 27, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Only 5 weeks until @titanbooks.bsky.social officially publishes my novel JITTERBUG, and I'm getting excited. This is a special book, and I think you're going to love it. Give yourself a little treat and preorder it today from your favourite bookshop!
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Ernest Jones, leader of the later Chartist movement and poet, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1819. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Ernest Jones, leader of the later Chartist movement and poet, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1819. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
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May Paris, Fife-born Chartist activist in Greenwich, south London, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1809. Hers is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 AM
May Paris, Fife-born Chartist activist in Greenwich, south London, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1809. Hers is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
Ernest Jones, leader of the later Chartist movement and poet, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1819. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Ernest Jones, leader of the later Chartist movement and poet, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1819. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
May Paris, Fife-born Chartist activist in Greenwich, south London, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1809. Hers is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 AM
May Paris, Fife-born Chartist activist in Greenwich, south London, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1809. Hers is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...
Can anyone recommend a good history of the convict system for those transported to Australia? Have read Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, which is useful, but most other stuff seems to be entertaining stories of individual convicts or lacking depth.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Can anyone recommend a good history of the convict system for those transported to Australia? Have read Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, which is useful, but most other stuff seems to be entertaining stories of individual convicts or lacking depth.
Blog post: A letter to Ireland - news of the political exiles of 1848 #Chartism
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News of the political exiles of 1848
Three years after the convict ship Adelaide carried the Irish and Chartist rebels of 1848 into a forced exile in Van Diemen’s land, the young artist who had sketched William Cuffay while they await…
chartistancestors.blog
January 22, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Blog post: A letter to Ireland - news of the political exiles of 1848 #Chartism
chartistancestors.blog/2026/01/22/n...
chartistancestors.blog/2026/01/22/n...
George Jacob Holyoake, the great Owenite socialist, co-operator, secularist and Chartist, died in Brighton #OnThisDay 22 January 1906 aged 88. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
January 22, 2026 at 8:08 AM
George Jacob Holyoake, the great Owenite socialist, co-operator, secularist and Chartist, died in Brighton #OnThisDay 22 January 1906 aged 88. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
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Whatever happened to Elizabeth Feargus Bronterre Benbow Chartist Wheeler?
#Chartism #C19th #FamilyHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
#Chartism #C19th #FamilyHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
Chartist children: radical naming practices and a thousand boys and girls called Feargus - chartist ancestors
Chartists often named their children after their Chartist heroes, including Feargus O’Connor, William Lovett, John
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Whatever happened to Elizabeth Feargus Bronterre Benbow Chartist Wheeler?
#Chartism #C19th #FamilyHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
#Chartism #C19th #FamilyHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-chi...
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The People’s Charter in red, blue and gold #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...
The People’s Charter in red, blue and gold - chartist ancestors
This version of the People's Charter printed in the 1840s in gold, red and blue text was made to hang on the wall of a public building.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The People’s Charter in red, blue and gold #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-peoples-...