northern star Archives - chartist ancestors

Chartist beverages and breakfast powders

Chartist breakfast powders were cheaper than tea or coffee, and said to be healthier. In addition, a dutiful Chartist might

Joshua Hobson was printer, publisher and later editor of the Northern Star, launching and briefly part-owning with William Hill what

Portrait of Peter Murray McDouall, one of a series of Northern Star engravings

George Julian Harney was among the first and the last Chartists – a revolutionary whose political journey through Chartism linked

While conservative newspapers invariably tried to belittle and undermine female Chartists, the radical press was often – though not always

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

Dr Katrina Navickas is the author of Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789-1848. She is senior lecturer

Edmund Stallwood was an active trade unionist and radical who worked as London correspondent for the Chartist Northern Star. This

With the arrest of John Frost and other leaders of the Newport rebellion, a stunned Chartist movement swung slowly into

By November 1848, with many of its leading activists in prison, the National Charter Association was in such a state