Chartist Magazine No 8 November 2015

It’s a First! Newport Cathedral hosts 2015 Chartist Convention get tickets

 

 

Welcome to the new electronic version of our Chartism Mag. We hope you will find it easy to navigate and read. The website contains a host of interesting sections where you can access historical data and imagery as well as current debates about the value of Chartism today.

 

The site is edited by Les James and David Mayer. If you have any queries or articles you wish to submit please email: les.james22@gmail.com

 

Contents

1. Newport Cathedral hosts 2015 Chartist Convention

 

2. Largest ever Children's March

 

3. Friars Walk Shopping Mall: Sebastien Boyeson art work to be unveiled in November

 

4. Book Preview :Render the Chartists Defenceless: John Frost’s voyage with Dr McKechnie to Van Diemen’s Land 1840, by Les James

 

5. Networking : Les James

6. Prof. Malcom Chase ‘Brothers under Oppression’: Chartists and the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38’ a report of the talk he gave at the 2014 Convention

 

7.Ryland Wallace: The Newport Suffragettes

 

8. Prof Owen Ashton, After the Rising: the Welsh Martyrs and West Country Chartism 1840-1856

 

9. David Osmond; Knowledge is Power. The threat to our library services

 

10. Peter Warner Clark on the Chartist Poet, Gerald Massey (1828-1907)

 

11. Points of View

 

12. "The Chartists are Coming" Cwtsh Art Gallery