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Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

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Is this really George Julian Harney? It’s such a bizarre portrait. The suggestion is that it was taken during his years in the United States, and the inscription on the back seems to show that it was sent to Jane Cowen, daughter of the Newcastle radical MP Joseph Cowen. It’s on eBay

I understand it’s a criminal offence in the US to pretend to be a doctor, so there must be some other explanation.

Trump setting himself up for a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. It’s his version of sticking a pencil up each nostril and going ‘wibble’.

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Is this really George Julian Harney? It’s such a bizarre portrait. The suggestion is that it was taken during his years in the United States, and the inscription on the back seems to show that it was sent to Jane Cowen, daughter of the Newcastle radical MP Joseph Cowen. It’s on eBay

Second Convention, 1842: the 'leviathan petition' - chartist ancestors Called to oversee the presentation of the second great Petition for the Charter to Parliament, the Chartist Convention of 1842 was bitterly divided over its attitude to middle-class reformers

The second Chartist convention met #OnThisDay 12 April 1842 to organise the presentation to Parliament of a petition signed by 3,315,712 people in support of the People’s Charter.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/second-conve...

Cartoons depicting magistrates and cavalrymen on 10 April 1848 - chartist ancestors This page looks at a set of cartoons depicting the military arrangements put in place in preparation for the Chartist monster meeting of 10 April 1848.

On 10 April 1848, Chartists marched to Kennington Common with the third Petition for the Charter under the anxiously watchful eye of the authorities. Thomas James Arnold, a police magistrate, drew these cartoons depicting his meetings with the military.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/cartoons-dep...

Cartoons depicting magistrates and cavalrymen on 10 April 1848 - chartist ancestors This page looks at a set of cartoons depicting the military arrangements put in place in preparation for the Chartist monster meeting of 10 April 1848.

On 10 April 1848, Chartists marched to Kennington Common with the third Petition for the Charter under the anxiously watchful eye of the authorities. Thomas James Arnold, a police magistrate, drew these cartoons depicting his meetings with the military.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/cartoons-dep...

A History of Protest and Public Space in England - Conway Hall Historian Katrina Navickas explores the radical history of the increasing restrictions against protest in England’s public spaces. From the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, C...

A reminder that I'm speaking at Conway Hall on Sunday 19 April. Book your tickets here: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Chartist Lives is currently for sale on eBay at more than £14. So this is a reminder that you can get more #Chartism in your life (and who doesn’t need that) for just £9.99 from the link below 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...

Public services should be free at the point of use. You pay for them through a system of progressive taxes which means people pay according to their means. It’s a political issue: you want both rich and poor to have a stake in creating a good quality public service, not a basic safety net.

Chartist Lives is currently for sale on eBay at more than £14. So this is a reminder that you can get more #Chartism in your life (and who doesn’t need that) for just £9.99 from the link below 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...

If only there were vehicles that ran on electricity.

I wish I was nearer to York. Would love the opportunity to browse the collection.

Books on shelves

Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop.
Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n

Helen Macfarlane, Chartist journalist and translator of the Communist Manifesto, died #OnThisDay 29 March 1860. Hers is one of 42 life stories told in Chartist Lives www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

Chartist beverages and breakfast powders - chartist ancestors Chartist breakfast powders were cheaper than tea or coffee, and said to be healthier. In

Something you have instead of cornflakes www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-bev...

Wonderful. I wouldn’t be in the least surprised to discover you can buy it in health food shops (under a new name).

Now that’s a reading room. Victoria State #Library, Melbourne

All looks very familiar!

This already looks great!

My new website is now live as a soft launch, but only as a very basic site. That’s okay. I remember doing this with Visit Nunney and everyone laughed. Then it went on to win awards, receive praise from top museums and beat insanely well-funded, agency-run websites within a few years. Early days.

We visited the Port Arthur penal colony (John Frost and assorted Young Irelanders) and Eureka (armed rising involving assorted Chartists and Irish Confederates), but not serious research - Tourist Chartism.

This in the old parliament house in Canberra - now the museum of Australian democracy.

You might think that…

Australia’s old and new parliaments in Canberra (green for the lower house, red for the senate). The original 1920s building has some lovely art deco features, but its modern replacement is just beautiful in its clean lines and Australian colours and materials.

Australia’s last mounted postie

If the text is unclear, I can reveal that the town was previously Germanton, but the locals wanted to change it during the first world war. In 1915, Lt Norman Holbrook led a submarine raid in the Dardanelles for which he won a Victoria Cross. The town was renamed in his honour.

So you’re in the Australian outback, 400km from the nearest seaport and you stop for a cold drink. What do you expect to find? A 90m long submarine, of course!

Eureka Stockade, 1854: Australia’s only armed uprising. The Ballarat Reform League Charter drawn up largely by English Chartists and Irish Confederates made the same political demands as the People’s Charter
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