Chartism Day 2023

Curator of the Peterloo exhibition at The John Rylands Library

Janette Martin

Chartism Day 2023 will take place on Saturday 17 June. The event is returning to Sheffield for the first time in a decade.

Owen Building

C﻿hartism Day 2023 is dedicated to the memory of <a href="https://sslh.org.uk/2022/09/14/stephen-frederick-roberts-1958-2022/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stephen Roberts (1958-2022)</a>Join us to hear about new Chartist research and recent publications, and to meet others with an interest in the field. Chartism Day typically attracts a diverse audience of new and established academics, independent researchers, local and family historians, and others who simply want to find out more about this key historical movement.The event on Saturday 17 June is open to everyone with an interest in Chartism and labour history. A light sandwich lunch will be provided for attendees.Bob Jones of Northern Herald Books will be running a book stall with a range of titles for sale on socialism, labour &amp; economic history, economics, industrial relations, women&#x27;s history – and, of course, ChartismA full programme below or available <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0uo1poblf2csrj/Programme%202023%20Chartism%20Day.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">as a pdf with images here</a>T﻿he event will be held in Room 1028, Owen Building, Sheffield City Centre, England, S1 2LX. Please note an accessible entrance to the Owen Building can be found on Howard Street.P﻿ROGRAMME9.15 Registration
<ul><li>Welcome: Joan Allen and Richard Allen
</li></ul><ul><li>Jennifer Reid – Chartist song
</li></ul><ul><li>Joan Allen tribute to Stephen Roberts
</li></ul><ul><li>Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University)
 Women, Late Chartism, and the Land Plan in Nottinghamshire
</li></ul><ul><li>Mark Crail (independent scholar)
 &#x27;My Dear Chinery...&#x27; Feargus O&#x27;Connor and the Business of Chartism
</li></ul>11.15 Break – Northern Herald Books bookstall open
<ul><li>Joshua Dight (Edge Hill University)
 Memory and Chartism’s Paper Pantheon Deconstructed
</li></ul>12.15 Lunch – bookstall open
<ul><li>Jennifer Reid: Chartist song: Shabby Feargus
</li></ul><ul><li>Alison Denham (independent scholar)
 Mr Cooper and Citizen Engels: What Went Wrong?
</li></ul><ul><li>Duncan Hamilton (University of Manchester)
 ‘Command will, with the progress of years, relax into persuasion’: Communitarian Idyll in Thomas Cooper’s Captain Cobler
</li></ul><ul><li>Kevin Morgan (University of Manchester)
Edouard Dolléans: Chartism’s First Modern Historian? 
</li></ul>3.30 Break – bookstall open
<ul><li>Keynote Lecture: Fabrice Bensimon (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
 The Northern Star, the Land Plan, and the 1848 Revolution: Traces of the Chartists in France</li></ul>
5.00 pm e﻿vent finishes

I﻿mage: Detail from The Opening of the Chartists’ Meeting House, Hyde, by Harry Rutherford; Tameside Museums and Galleries Service: The Astley Cheetham Art Collection.

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