The Newport Rising Festival and the Annual Newport Chartist Convention will look different this year!

 

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to hold a responsibly organised torch lit procession, hundreds deep, marching through the streets, like last year and the year before…

 

Wales is in national lock down and now England is joining the rest of the UK

 

- Things are Happening via TEAMS and ZOOM

 

For up to date information about the streaming, go to

https://www.newportrising.co.uk/

 

CHARTISM eMAG will provide on-line historical backup in October and November editions

http://thechartists.org/magazine.html

 

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Contact les.james22@gmail.com

 

We look forward to networking across Wales and the World. The Editor welcomes queries and contributions – short or long – for publication

 

WHAT’S OCCURRING?

Annual Commemoration Ceremony

at Newport Cathedral (St. Woolos)

Wednesday 4th November 18.00 Live Stream/Video

https://www.newportrising.co.uk/events/virtual-commemoration-event

 

More than twenty Chartists died

at the Westgate Inn, 4 Nov 1839

 

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 David Osmond, author (1987) of the inscription

 

 

 

Newport Rising Film Club

Friday 6 November 20.00 hrs

Following the success of our virtual Newport Rising Film Event on Friday 30 October, we are planning to hold another, more informal zoom event next Friday 6 November 2020 at 20.00

 

We’ll discuss Ava De Vernay’s acclaimed Netflix documentary, ’13th’ - as part of an ongoing community-based film club. Details at wwwnewportrising.co.uk.

 

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Newport Chartist Convention

 

It had been planned to hold the convention at the Newport Cathedral on 5 December 2020. The 14th Convention will now be marked by three online lectures to be publicly streamed over that weekend.

 

Friday December 4th 18.30: Ray Stroud:

In Search of Jenkin Morgan,

 

Saturday December 5th 18.30:

2020 Convention Keynote Lecture

Dr Joan Allen (Newcastle University)

Legality and Injustice in the Age of the Chartists,

with special reference to Regina vs Frost, 1840

 

Sunday December 6th, 18.30: Peter Strong:

Henry Vincent: The Monmouth Prison Letters

 

Full details, including how to book, will be issued as soon as available.

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GREAT NEWS

The ‘REOPEN THE WESTGATE APPEAL’ has reached the halfway mark

 

view the Jessica Morden & John Griffiths Appeal

https://twitter.com/i/status/1319631878924763143

 

​The BATTLE SCENE of the NEWPORT RISING in 1839

 

£10,000 urgently needed if this to happen. There's lots of work to be done at the Westgate

 

 "every penny raised will go back into the building".

 

FOR Details of the 'crowdfunding' for this community project.

And to send your donation

See http://thechartists.org/re-open-the-westgate.html

 

The ‘CHAIR’ CHANGES at the Newport Charity OUR CHARTIST HERITAGE

 

Pat Drewett, the helmsman of all things Chartist in Newport for a decade and much more, let it be known before Christmas that he wished to step down in February of this year from his role. Les James, who worked with Pat in organising the first Convention at the ‘Stute’ in 2007, and many more thereafter, believes that Pat’s passion for Chartism stemmed from the response he found amongst his school pupils at St. Josephs Primary School. “Pat was a great organiser,” he says, “And undoubtedly, amongst his many great successes, the one that gave him most satisfaction, was his re-establishment of the Children’s March down Stow Hill’.

 

David Daniels told CHARTISM eMAG: “The energy and passion that Pat Drewett brought to OCH and Newport Rising Festival was incredible. I remember long meetings when the planning team would be talking for hours and as they drew to a close I’d be thinking ‘I need a break for a bit’ and Pat would say “right, I’m off to meet the Convention team or I’m off to Labour meeting or I’m off to play tennis, now” … Any time of day or night if I needed advice or help with something he was there, happy to chat or meet and get stuck in. I also realised early on that Pat knows everyone, and I think that’s because he’s been at the centre of not just Chartism but as one of the people in Newport working hard for the common good for decades”.

 

Les James adds “We look forward to marching again in the Autumn of 2021. And look forward to seeing Pat at the front”.

 

GREETINGS TO TASMANIA

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LAST YEAR 2019 at Latrobe - 180th Anniversary of Newport Rising celebrated 4 Nov

 

Friends of the Chartists laid a wreath at Zephaniah Williams' gravestone

 

(Spotted in The ADVOCATE newspaper, TASMANIA Photo: Brodie Weeding)

 

LINK [See Article 9: The Williams Family Monument no 19 edition CHARTISM eMAG]

 

 

Correspondence: les.james22@gmail.com