A new book about Sheffield based revolutionary Samuel Holberry was published a couple of weeks ago. Holberry, frustrated by the failure of Chartism, took part in organising an uprising in Sheffield. He died in appalling conditions in prison. Book is getting great reviews - here's the press release:
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A new book about Sheffield based revolutionary Samuel Holberry was published a couple of weeks ago. Holberry, frustrated by the failure of Chartism, took part in organising an uprising in Sheffield. He died in appalling conditions in prison. Book is getting great reviews - here's the press release:
In Archives Week in 2021, the Peoples Collection of Wales placed on-line a very large number of documents relating to what happened on the day and subsequent trials... now been transcribed and versions can be read more easily
www.peoplescollection.wales/users/10004
A remarkable resource. #Chartism
www.peoplescollection.wales/users/10004
A remarkable resource. #Chartism
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In Archives Week in 2021, the Peoples Collection of Wales placed on-line a very large number of documents relating to what happened on the day and subsequent trials... now been transcribed and versions can be read more easily
www.peoplescollection.wales/users/10004
A remarkable resource. #Chartism
www.peoplescollection.wales/users/10004
A remarkable resource. #Chartism
A part of our nation’s history that shouldn’t be forgotten. ✊🏻
Something that my birthplace and the entire country should be proud of. 💪🏻
#chartism #newport #southwales #wales #history #doyouhearthepeoplesing
Something that my birthplace and the entire country should be proud of. 💪🏻
#chartism #newport #southwales #wales #history #doyouhearthepeoplesing
#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A part of our nation’s history that shouldn’t be forgotten. ✊🏻
Something that my birthplace and the entire country should be proud of. 💪🏻
#chartism #newport #southwales #wales #history #doyouhearthepeoplesing
Something that my birthplace and the entire country should be proud of. 💪🏻
#chartism #newport #southwales #wales #history #doyouhearthepeoplesing
Chartism, the popular movement for electoral reform, had been gaining momentum since the 1832 Reform Act. For many, that Act wasn't good enough, but parliament refused to consider a petition signed by over a million people calling for further reform. Instead, agitators were locked up. 2/
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Chartism, the popular movement for electoral reform, had been gaining momentum since the 1832 Reform Act. For many, that Act wasn't good enough, but parliament refused to consider a petition signed by over a million people calling for further reform. Instead, agitators were locked up. 2/
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
Not too far from Whitby, either. We’ll premiere the film at Chartism Day next year.
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Not too far from Whitby, either. We’ll premiere the film at Chartism Day next year.
I have it on good authority that Lincolnshire is a fitting stand-in for Transylvania! However, it does pose further questions about his relationship with the Cross and with Chartism - we need someone to draft a screenplay for "Ernest Jones: Vampire Hunter"
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I have it on good authority that Lincolnshire is a fitting stand-in for Transylvania! However, it does pose further questions about his relationship with the Cross and with Chartism - we need someone to draft a screenplay for "Ernest Jones: Vampire Hunter"
A key lesson the left doesn't understand, including Sultana, is that the public care primarily about knife and fork (to borrow from Chartism) issues. The problem in Coventry is that the city has major problems, not least two major universities (like all of them) in a great deal of financial trouble
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A key lesson the left doesn't understand, including Sultana, is that the public care primarily about knife and fork (to borrow from Chartism) issues. The problem in Coventry is that the city has major problems, not least two major universities (like all of them) in a great deal of financial trouble
As a slight aside Skircoat Green, Halifax, was a hotbed of Chartism in the mid 19th century. The pub is still called the Standard of Freedom following a speech by the Landlord “The people of Skircoat Green shall join in that march of freedom and I shall raise the Standard of Freedom at this Inn.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
As a slight aside Skircoat Green, Halifax, was a hotbed of Chartism in the mid 19th century. The pub is still called the Standard of Freedom following a speech by the Landlord “The people of Skircoat Green shall join in that march of freedom and I shall raise the Standard of Freedom at this Inn.”
So here's a thing... if you go to the Wikipedia page for "democratic socialism" you find it grew out of the Chartist movement.
If you go to the page Chartism, you find it is an integral part of the history of British liberalism.
Democratic socialism is an inherently liberal ideology.
If you go to the page Chartism, you find it is an integral part of the history of British liberalism.
Democratic socialism is an inherently liberal ideology.
Chartism - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
So here's a thing... if you go to the Wikipedia page for "democratic socialism" you find it grew out of the Chartist movement.
If you go to the page Chartism, you find it is an integral part of the history of British liberalism.
Democratic socialism is an inherently liberal ideology.
If you go to the page Chartism, you find it is an integral part of the history of British liberalism.
Democratic socialism is an inherently liberal ideology.
Meaning of #cartismo 1º_ It is a version of Cardism closer to Spanish, where the card is called "carta" and not "card" as in English. 2º_ 'Chartism' is the movement that appeared in Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century demanding political and labor reforms th.. cartismo
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
The cover isn't to my taste but it's a fascinating read if you know the area.
Despite covering Chartism is O level history I only learned about the Newport Rising from my mother's copy
Despite covering Chartism is O level history I only learned about the Newport Rising from my mother's copy
October 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The cover isn't to my taste but it's a fascinating read if you know the area.
Despite covering Chartism is O level history I only learned about the Newport Rising from my mother's copy
Despite covering Chartism is O level history I only learned about the Newport Rising from my mother's copy
Late Chartism is wild. What do you mean Ernest Jones is coming out to bat for Thomas Cooper against Gammage's 'History of the Chartist Movement'? Whose side is anyone on?
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Late Chartism is wild. What do you mean Ernest Jones is coming out to bat for Thomas Cooper against Gammage's 'History of the Chartist Movement'? Whose side is anyone on?
Born #OnThisDay 1792 William Collins, Radical MP for Warwick, 1837-52. He was among the minority of 46 MPs who voted in support of the 1839 Chartist petition. There’s more on the Victorian Commons & Chartism here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
The People’s Charter and the Victorian Commons
On 8 May 1838 the People’s Charter was first published. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, we consider the initial response of Victorian MPs to the Charter and the ways in which the History of Par…
victoriancommons.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Born #OnThisDay 1792 William Collins, Radical MP for Warwick, 1837-52. He was among the minority of 46 MPs who voted in support of the 1839 Chartist petition. There’s more on the Victorian Commons & Chartism here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
Chartism was divided into two strands, those who favoured ‘moral force’ and those who supported ‘physical force’ - non-violence v violence. Again there is a big historiography on the effectiveness of each. The labour movement prefers romantic fiction to history.
October 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Chartism was divided into two strands, those who favoured ‘moral force’ and those who supported ‘physical force’ - non-violence v violence. Again there is a big historiography on the effectiveness of each. The labour movement prefers romantic fiction to history.
Tolpuddle is the counter case though. Massive (peaceful) protest shocked the ruling class. Close to ignored by historiography and a labour movement that prefers violence (chartism and counter reaction) and martyrdom instead of highlighting this success.
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Tolpuddle is the counter case though. Massive (peaceful) protest shocked the ruling class. Close to ignored by historiography and a labour movement that prefers violence (chartism and counter reaction) and martyrdom instead of highlighting this success.
PARALLELS BETWEEN THE DECLINE OF CHARTISM AND THE POST-CORBYN LEFT JOHN
October 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
PARALLELS BETWEEN THE DECLINE OF CHARTISM AND THE POST-CORBYN LEFT JOHN
Yesterday, students on our 2nd year "British Protest Movements" module tried their hand at designing and making political banners.
As part of their studies of Chartism, students used slogans and symbolism common in early 19th century banners.
Innovative teaching enjoyed by all! 🎨🗃️
As part of their studies of Chartism, students used slogans and symbolism common in early 19th century banners.
Innovative teaching enjoyed by all! 🎨🗃️
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Yesterday, students on our 2nd year "British Protest Movements" module tried their hand at designing and making political banners.
As part of their studies of Chartism, students used slogans and symbolism common in early 19th century banners.
Innovative teaching enjoyed by all! 🎨🗃️
As part of their studies of Chartism, students used slogans and symbolism common in early 19th century banners.
Innovative teaching enjoyed by all! 🎨🗃️
There is a whole socialist tradition going back to chartism and owenist cooperativism which has hold the reivindication of democracy at the worplace, theoritically worked by people like Sidney and Beatrice Webb or in the guild socialist stance of George D. H. Cole and those are valuablr resources
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There is a whole socialist tradition going back to chartism and owenist cooperativism which has hold the reivindication of democracy at the worplace, theoritically worked by people like Sidney and Beatrice Webb or in the guild socialist stance of George D. H. Cole and those are valuablr resources
Absolutely fascinating. Wade a fascinating figure involved in the Queen Caroline affair, agitation for the Tolpuddle labourers, Chartism and much else besides. Great to see a portrait of him.
Here's a recording of my Warwick Words History Festival Talk on Rev. Arthur Wade, Radical Vicar of Warwick: youtu.be/lessQB7CSJ0
Dave Steele Rev Arthur Wade Radical Vicar of Warwick
YouTube video by john smith
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Absolutely fascinating. Wade a fascinating figure involved in the Queen Caroline affair, agitation for the Tolpuddle labourers, Chartism and much else besides. Great to see a portrait of him.
This is further slip towards authoritarianism by a Labour Government. The Party whose roots lie in chartism, tolpuddle, red Dundee, red Clydesdale and more lately the fight against racism is helter skeltering in a terrible way.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is further slip towards authoritarianism by a Labour Government. The Party whose roots lie in chartism, tolpuddle, red Dundee, red Clydesdale and more lately the fight against racism is helter skeltering in a terrible way.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Its Black History Month in the UK. I posted this on the black leader of London Chartism in 1848 William Cuffay five years ago. Despite much hype about Woke-ism & DEI no progress has been made on a London memorial
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Black History Month. Still no statue of ‘The Black Man & His Party’, Chartist Leader, William Cuffay
. Black History Month. Still no monument of the leader of London Chartism in 1848,William Cuffay I posted this five years ago. Despite all the hype about Wokeness and DEI and also despite campaigni…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Its Black History Month in the UK. I posted this on the black leader of London Chartism in 1848 William Cuffay five years ago. Despite much hype about Woke-ism & DEI no progress has been made on a London memorial
wp.me/s15p2Q-test
wp.me/s15p2Q-test