1848 Archives - chartist ancestors

Cartoons depicting magistrates and cavalrymen on 10 April 1848

Hand drawn and contemporary with the Chartist Meeting on 10 April 1848 on Kennington Common, this set of five cartoons

Eighteen inches in length, and decorated with a royal crest and lion, the police truncheon shown here is connected to

Joseph Williams was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields

Alexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields

Standing nine feet tall and topped with a cap of liberty, it would have been difficult for visitors to the

Henry Hanshard had been among the crowd at a meeting of Chartist and Irish Confederates in Novia Scotia Gardens, but

On 10 April 1848, thousands of Chartists assembled on Kennington Common in south London preparing to march on Parliament to

The 1848 Chartist Convention of 1848 was called to prepare the presentation of the third great national petition calling for

The page recounts how some London Chartists tried to organise an armed rebellion – known as the Orange Tree conspiracy

William Henry Chadwick was arrested for his Chartist activities in 1848 but lived on into the 20th century. This is