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historiography 

Paul Pickering on Feargus O’Connor

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, paul pickering

Professor Paul Pickering is Director of both the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the Australian Studies Institute

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insurrection and monster meetings lists of names 

Trial of Feargus O’Connor and 58 others, 1843

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, trial

Much of the Chartist leadership found itself on trial after the events of the summer of 1842. This page sets

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chartist varieties and rivals organisations and newspapers 

National Charter League

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, gwm reynolds

The National Charter League was one of a number of organisations that came forward after 1848 in an attempt to

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organisations and newspapers 

The Northern Star in numbers

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, george julian harney, henry vincent, petitions, william lovett

This page provides a statistical breakdown of some of the main themes and individuals reported by the Northern Star between

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organisations and newspapers 

Northern Star – the paper that made Chartism

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, george julian harney, leeds, northern star

The Northern Star was by some distance the most important of all the Chartist newspapers, and for family historians it

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lists of names 

Chartist prisoners, 1839-1840

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, prisoners

The government showed little hesitation in arresting and imprisoning Chartists as part of its strategy for dealing with successive waves

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organisations and newspapers 

NCA National Central Registration and Elections Committee

Chartist Ancestors feargus o'connor, henry vincent, james grassby, national charter association, samuel carter, thomas slingsby duncombe

The National Charter Association’s National Registration and Elections Committee (NCREC) aimed to co-ordinate the Chartist challenge at parliamentary elections, despite

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insurrection and monster meetings 

Monster meeting on Kennington Common, 10 April 1848

Chartist Ancestors 1848, ernest jones, feargus o'connor, gwm reynolds, london, petitions

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

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conferences 

London convention and assembly 1848

Chartist Ancestors 1848, ernest jones, feargus o'connor, london

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

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historiography 

Stephen Roberts on Dorothy Thompson and the Dignity of Chartism

Chartist Ancestors dorothy thompson, feargus o'connor

Stephen Roberts is the editor of The Dignity of Chartism, a collection of essays by the eminent Chartist historian Dorothy

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