Paul Pickering on Feargus O’Connor
Professor Paul Pickering is Director of both the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the Australian Studies Institute
Read moreProfessor Paul Pickering is Director of both the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the Australian Studies Institute
Read moreMuch of the Chartist leadership found itself on trial after the events of the summer of 1842. This page sets
Read moreThe National Charter League was one of a number of organisations that came forward after 1848 in an attempt to
Read moreThis page provides a statistical breakdown of some of the main themes and individuals reported by the Northern Star between
Read moreThe Northern Star was by some distance the most important of all the Chartist newspapers, and for family historians it
Read moreThe government showed little hesitation in arresting and imprisoning Chartists as part of its strategy for dealing with successive waves
Read moreThe National Charter Association’s National Registration and Elections Committee (NCREC) aimed to co-ordinate the Chartist challenge at parliamentary elections, despite
Read moreOn 10 April 1848, thousands of Chartists assembled on Kennington Common in south London preparing to march on Parliament to
Read moreThe 1848 Chartist Convention of 1848 was called to prepare the presentation of the third great national petition calling for
Read moreStephen Roberts is the editor of The Dignity of Chartism, a collection of essays by the eminent Chartist historian Dorothy
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