tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58242330736231332472024-02-19T12:47:29.370+11:00William Cuffay: 1778 - 1870Chartist leader: London and Hobart - Organising for democratic and workers' rightsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-69908448907575526492018-03-04T07:46:00.000+11:002019-01-26T13:30:41.556+11:00
Drawn in his Cell in Newgate
By his fellow sufferer Wm Dowling
© Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London
Notes
Cuffay's fame in Australia preceded his trial and grew after he was transported to Van Diemen's Land where he quickly became an important figure in the Tasmanian labour and ant-conscription movements. Before the lithographic plate from which the National Portrait Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-54585417755298769012018-02-15T11:14:00.001+11:002018-02-15T11:21:35.793+11:00Ernest Jones
Ernest Charles Jones (25 January 1819 – 26 January 1869), English poet, novelist, and Chartist.
Early life Jones was born on 25 January 1819 in Berlin, while his parents were visiting the Prussian court. He was the son of a British Army Major named Charles Gustav Jones, equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover. In 1838 Jones came to England, and in 1841 published Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-90828154710007742232018-02-15T10:48:00.002+11:002018-02-15T11:01:21.159+11:00Chartist Songs
From The Luddites and Other Essays (pp. 125-151)
Songs of the Labour Movement (John Miller)
The Chartist movement produced a great body of literature, poems and songs, which is largely unknown today. It was modelled on the works of the great Reformers such as Godwin and Paine, on the poetry of the great romantics such as Byron and Shelley, and that of the radical poets of the 1830's, and on Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-80974621038282008522018-02-14T12:35:00.000+11:002018-02-14T12:46:46.134+11:00Of Factory Girls And Serving Maids
The Literary Labours of Working‐Class Women in Victorian Britain
by
Meagan B. Timney
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2009)
ABSTRACT
My dissertation examines the political and formal aspects of poetry written by working‐class women in England and Scotland between 1830 and 1880. I analyse a poetic corpus that I have gathered from Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-15952633198772392952018-02-13T17:12:00.001+11:002018-02-13T17:12:22.502+11:00Chartists talked the talk and walked the walk
Morning Star 1 July, 2015
Withdrawing labour was an essential component of the Chartists’ grand national holiday and it has lost none of it relevance, believes KEITH FLETT
In August 1839 the Chartists proclaimed a grand national holiday or sacred month.
The “holiday” was the idea of William Benbow. Like many radical activists in the 19th century he ranged across a variety of occupations, fromUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-21055635139409004582018-02-13T16:54:00.003+11:002018-02-13T17:07:20.771+11:00Cuffay and the Medway Election
Black Chartist born in the by-election town was the leader in a genuine democracy fight, writes Historian Keith Flett (Morning Star 24 August 2017)
Son of Medway’s lessons for Ukip
In October 2011 I spoke to an audience of around 100 people in Medway on a labour-history-related topic.
Considering that getting into double rather than treble figures for any meeting that touches on working-classUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-78120315145119960922018-02-11T12:24:00.001+11:002018-02-11T12:40:58.718+11:00Chartists and other Political Prisoners
In all, the transportation era generated around 1000 political prisoners, but many of them were highly regarded and so they attracted a lot of attention from newspapers, politicians and people in public life. They still attract a lot of attention today and have come to be known for the various causes they represented. Much has been written about them and in time more specialist web sites will beUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-1971065283275280212017-12-27T17:36:00.004+11:002019-01-26T13:05:08.424+11:00An Anthology of Chartist Literature
YURI V. KOVALEV
An Anthology of Chartist Literature
This essay is a translation by Joan Simon of the Preface to An Anthology of Chartist Literature (Moscow 1956), edited by Yuri V. Kovalev, a lecturer in English and American literature at Leningrad University.
At the close of the 1830's there arose in England a powerful workers' movement—Chartism, which V.I. Lenin characterised as 'the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-29638137655046762782017-12-24T11:41:00.002+11:002017-12-24T11:41:35.959+11:00A Chronology Of The Chartist Movement
Chartism & The Chartists Musings, information & illustrations about the Chartists from Stephen Roberts
1836 London Working Men's Association established. William Lovett is secretary (June).
1837 East London Democratic Association established (January); Birmingham Political Union re-established (May); First issue of Northern Star appears in Leeds. Feargus O'Connor is proprietor and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-20102309263363330382017-11-29T20:00:00.002+11:002017-11-29T20:13:45.415+11:00Chartism in New Zealand
This biography, written by Herbert Roth, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1990.
George Binns was born in Sunderland, Durham, England, on 6 December 1815, one of 16 children of George Binns and his wife, Margaret Watson. George Binns senior, a member of the Society of Friends, was a well-to-do draper and George Binns junior worked in the family business until Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-3375817559761271322017-11-29T19:25:00.001+11:002017-11-29T20:26:30.101+11:00The Irish Influence in the Chartist Movement
It was undeniably in the Chartist Movement that the Irish made their most important contribution to the growth of political radicalism among the working classes in nineteenth-century Britain. But their earlier influence was not negligible. John Doherty, for instance, was a leading trade unionist and in 1829 organised the first general union among the Lancashire cotton spinners; there was WilliamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-41248177049401743032017-11-22T11:06:00.002+11:002017-11-22T11:06:36.470+11:00Mary Ann Walker, Chartist lecturer
Mary Ann Walker was a Chartist lecturer who briefly became a media sensation. This is her story.
In an era just coming to terms with the idea of newspaper celebrity, Mary Ann Walker was something of a Chartist sensation.
A young, outspoken woman who held very a definite fascination for male journalists, she became well known as a Chartist lecturer, whose quick mind and turn of phrase made her aUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-33278046572204659642017-11-22T09:47:00.004+11:002017-11-22T11:22:37.102+11:00Sunshine and Shadow – Chartist Novel
Thomas Martin Wheeler's Chartist novel Sunshine and Shadow (1849-50) represents a dramatic alternative to the mainstream social problem novel and thus has an important claim on the attention of literary scholars. (1) Among its more overlooked qualities are the book's revolutionary politics, yet to miss Wheeler's political innovation entails an incomplete understanding of his fictional innovationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-14654117086790932072017-09-11T17:16:00.000+10:002017-09-11T17:37:43.322+10:00William Cuffay in Van Diemen's Land (2011)
Radio National Documentary Isle of Denial: William Cuffay in Van Diemen's Land
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-46761456335741562252017-09-11T15:06:00.001+10:002017-09-11T15:06:21.507+10:00Cuffay speech at London Demonstration
The Chartist newspaper the Northern Star reported Cuffay speaking at the London demonstration of 2 March 1948
We have arrived at a time when a league of kings is no longer dreaded … The French had set us a glorious example, beating the strongest army in the world … Never despair of your rights. ‘Look there,’ said the speaker, pointing to a huge placard bearing the words, ‘The Republic for Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-73581668105129477932017-06-12T19:12:00.000+10:002018-04-23T19:13:05.789+10:00William Cuffay – Peter Fryer
THE STORY OF WILLIAM CUFFAY
BLACK CHARTIST
William Cuffay, a black tailor who lived in London, was one of the leaders and martyrs of the Chartist movement, the first mass political movement of the British working class. His grandfather was an African, sold into slavery on the island of St Kitts, where his father was born a slave. Cuffay was made to suffer for his political beliefs and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-27206899159766414832017-04-07T09:58:00.000+10:002018-04-07T10:03:18.570+10:00William Cuffay – 70th Anniversary of Kennington Common
Celebrating Kennington Park’s historic past
In the spring of 1848, as revolution and unrest consumed Europe, Kennington was at the centre of the fight for social justice in Britain.
Tens of thousands of people gathered on Kennington Common on the 10th of April, demanding the right to vote.
The Chartist movement was a popular campaign that saw working people come together behind the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-58846345788622733222016-12-18T21:41:00.001+11:002016-12-18T22:02:21.935+11:00The "Slop Workers" of London. (1850)
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser Sat 30 Mar 1850 Page 1.
I was led, by the gentleman whose advice I
had sought, to a narrow court, the entrance
to which was blocked up by stalls of fresh
herrings. We had to pass sideways between
the baskets with our coat tails under our
arms. At the end of the passage we entered
a dirty looking house by a side entrance.
Though it wasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-6645546219137477252016-12-18T16:52:00.004+11:002016-12-18T16:52:45.587+11:00The Peoples Petition
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser Sat 9 Sep 1848 Page 4
O Lords and Rulers of the Nation,
The softly cloth'd, the richly fed ;
Ye men of wealth, and rank, and station,
Give us our daily bread.
For you we are content to toil ;
For you our blood, like rain, is shed ;
Then, lords and rulers of the soil,
Give us our daily bread.
In the red forge light do we Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-68570190374491566282016-12-18T16:37:00.000+11:002016-12-18T16:41:43.088+11:00Massacre at Peterloo (1819)
The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.
The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 had resulted in periods of famine and chronic unemployment, exacerbated by the introduction of the first of the Corn Laws. By the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-9599484335872255922016-12-18T15:11:00.003+11:002016-12-18T15:11:20.259+11:00National Petition (1836)
Unto the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, the Petition of the undersigned, their suffering countrymen.
HUMBLY SHEWETH,
That we, your petitioners, dwell in a land whose merchants are noted for enterprise, whose manufacturers are very skilful, and whose workmen are proverbial for their industry.
The land itself is goodly, the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-91787933550232193822016-08-05T16:55:00.003+10:002016-08-05T17:05:04.353+10:00Newport Chartists – Demolished Mural
On the night of 3rd-4th November, 1839, upwards of twenty Chartists were
killed in a confrontation with soldiers at Newport in Wales.
The mural depicting these events in Newport was hastily demolished in October 2013.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-42101730195197455552016-03-26T16:09:00.001+11:002016-03-26T16:58:36.409+11:00William Paul Dowling – Irish Confederate
Born Dublin, Ireland, c.1824
Died Launceston, Tasmania 3 August 1877
Arrived in Van Diemen's Land 29 November 1849 per convict ship Adelaide
Occupation Artist : Engraver | Painter | Photographer | Lithographer
Addresses
1851 (October). St. John Street, Launceston, Tasmania, next door to Messrs. Gleadow and Henty
1853 (November). Moved his studio to Macquarie Street, Hobart, opposite St Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-35212855667646154322016-03-17T17:00:00.002+11:002016-03-17T17:05:24.234+11:00Peoples Charter – May 1838
WMA Booklet outlining an Act for the People's Charter published May 1838 and sold at "All Booksellers"
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824233073623133247.post-77542628764468475862016-03-17T15:25:00.000+11:002016-03-17T15:25:58.930+11:00The Battle Of Spitaloo
The Newcastle Song Book or Songs of the Tyne (1842)
On the thirtieth day of July
The Chartists did combine,
That they would hold a meeting
At Newcastle upon Tyne;
In spite of Mayor or Magistrates,
They would come up to a man,
But when the Police them attack'd,
They took to their heels and ran.
Chorus
At the battle of Spitaloo, my boys,
At the battle of Spitaloo—
The Chartists' colours were Unknownnoreply@blogger.com