Tag: 1839

NEW ON CHARTIST ANCESTORS
Theophilus Salmon
Ticket porter and secretary of the Scientific and Political Institute

George Black
Chartist gun runner and gold diggers’ advocate at Ballarat, Australia

The Evening Star
Feargus O’Connor’s Chartist evening newspaper for London

Chartist Lives
Read about the People who made up the Chartist movement

NEW ON THE BLOG
Ernest Jones and the King of Hanover A youthful political indiscretion on the part of a Chartist leader

Celebrating Thomas Slingsby Duncombe
A rare Staffordshire pottery figure of the great Radical MP is still a highly desirable thing

First Chartist Convention, 1839: the General Convention of the Industrious Classes