george julian harney Archives - chartist ancestors

Friend of the People – into the 1850s

This page recounts the story of George Julian Harney’s short-lived Friend of the People, and reproduces some snippets from its

The Red Republican ran for 24 issues from June to November 1850, and almost every issue carried a list of

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

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

First translator of the Communist Manifesto. Few knew her identity at the time, and fewer still remembered her in the