@markcrail.bsky.social
Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
@markcrail.bsky.socialEnjoyed the great collection of ceramics at the Fitzwilliam Museum on a recent visit to Cambridge. Couldn’t find any Chartist or Peterloo stuff, but liked this of Marat very much not in his bathtub
@markcrail.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.socialNew page on Chartist Ancestors: Barnsley Chartist Peter Hoey's petition to John Fielden in support of factory reform
#Chartism #FactoryActs #C19th #Barnsley #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/peter-hoeys-...
@markcrail.bsky.socialI bought this at auction recently. It arrived with printouts providing information on Peter Hoey and John Fielden. I was amused to find that the Hoey document was printed from my own website.
@markcrail.bsky.socialNew page on Chartist Ancestors: Barnsley Chartist Peter Hoey's petition to John Fielden in support of factory reform
#Chartism #FactoryActs #C19th #Barnsley #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/peter-hoeys-...
@markcrail.bsky.socialEverton?! At least they didn’t have to put up with predictive text.
@markcrail.bsky.socialOf course, Everton the Victorian era had the most marvellous copperplate handwriting…
@histparl.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.socialThe 1832 Reform Act made drastic changes to the electoral system, including expanding the right to vote.
Dr Philip Salmon looks at the different (and sometimes quite unusual) ways in which people could qualify for the franchise after 1832.
@victoriancommons.bsky.social
@markcrail.bsky.socialI complained to the BBC…
@markcrail.bsky.socialI am concerned that some of my ancestors may have come here in small boats in the 7th century, so I’m not English. Or perhaps I’m English and the Romano-Brits my Jutish ancestors displaced aren’t. Maybe Suella can untangle this for me.
@markcrail.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.social#Chartism #Historian
In 1958, A.R.Schoyen write a fantastic biography of the Chartist editor and activist George Julian Harney (titled The Chartist Challenge). But then, apparently, nothing. I’ve often wondered who he was and what became of him…
chartistancestors.blog/2026/09/23/t...
@markcrail.bsky.social#Chartism #Historian
In 1958, A.R.Schoyen write a fantastic biography of the Chartist editor and activist George Julian Harney (titled The Chartist Challenge). But then, apparently, nothing. I’ve often wondered who he was and what became of him…
chartistancestors.blog/2026/09/23/t...
@markcrail.bsky.socialThe funeral of the Bethnal Green Chartist martyr Alexander Sharp following his death in Tothill Fields Bridewell took place #OnThisDay 23 September 1849. He had been gaoled after speaking at meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/alexander-sh...
@sslh.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.socialMissed this year's Chartism Day, or wish to revisit the highlights? Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social reports on a memorable day at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick. Read his report on the latest research on Chartism here: sslh.org.uk/2026/09/22/c...
@markcrail.bsky.socialI would be cautious of using AI for this.
@markcrail.bsky.socialJames Watson, radical London publisher, ‘blasphemer’, organiser of the 1834 Copenhagen Fields meeting to demand the return of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, was born at Malton, Yorkshire, #OnThisDay 21 September 1799.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/james-watson...
@petergray47.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.socialIn Warwick for an excellent Chartism Day’.
@markcrail.bsky.socialA great day - and really good to meet you.
@markcrail.bsky.socialLooking forward to Chartism Day today
@markcrail.bsky.socialReposted by @markcrail.bsky.socialThe funeral of the “Bethnal Green Martyr” Joseph Williams took place #OnThisDay 16 September 1849 at Victoria Park Cemetery. Williams, a prominent Chartist, died in Tothill Fields gaol after being convicted of making seditious speeches at Clerkenwell Green www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joseph-willi...
@markcrail.bsky.socialThe funeral of the “Bethnal Green Martyr” Joseph Williams took place #OnThisDay 16 September 1849 at Victoria Park Cemetery. Williams, a prominent Chartist, died in Tothill Fields gaol after being convicted of making seditious speeches at Clerkenwell Green www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joseph-willi...
