Female Chartism and the press
While conservative newspapers invariably tried to belittle and undermine female Chartists, the radical press was often – though not always
Read moreWhile conservative newspapers invariably tried to belittle and undermine female Chartists, the radical press was often – though not always
Read moreThe Northern Star was by some distance the most important of all the Chartist newspapers, and for family historians it
Read moreDr Katrina Navickas is the author of Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789-1848. She is senior lecturer
Read moreEdmund Stallwood was an active trade unionist and radical who worked as London correspondent for the Chartist Northern Star. This
Read moreWith the arrest of John Frost and other leaders of the Newport rebellion, a stunned Chartist movement swung slowly into
Read moreBy November 1848, with many of its leading activists in prison, the National Charter Association was in such a state
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