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Chartism Day 2018
09 June 2018, 10:00 am–7:00 pm
Event Information
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Location
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IAS Common Ground, South Wing, UCL
On Saturday 9 June, UCL will host this one-day conference on the Chartist movement (1838-1858) for workers' rights and democracy.
Programme
10-10.45: Rhian E. Jones, "The Rebecca Riots: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in Early Victorian Wales"
10.45-11.30: Emma Harris, "Bartłomiej Beniowski, the London Polish émigrés and the early Chartist movement"
11.30-11.45: Break
11.45-12.30: Peter Cox, "Transcribing the Land Company share register"
12.30-13.45: Lunch
13.45-14.35: David Kennerley, "Strikes and singing classes: The politics of sound in 1842 and after"
14.35-15.25: Alison Denham, "A whirlwind of ideas in 1840s London"
15.25-15.40: Break
15.40-16.30: Jacob Dengate, "From Euphoria to dismay: a closer look at Chartist responses to the Revolutions of 1848"
17.45: Meet at Kennington tube station
David Goodway on 10 April 1848
Richard Galpin on the Kennington Chartist Project
Steve I. Martin on Black involvement in working-class movements in London and in Chartism
19.00: Drinks at the White Bear, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ
Abstracts
Click here to view the abstracts for the day's papers.
Event details
Fees: £10 registration fee, including tea and coffee breaks and lunch.
Organisers: Joan Allen, Richard Allen, Malcolm Chase and Fabrice Bensimon
Contact: Fabrice Bensimon, f.bensimon@ucl.ac.uk