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Newcastle University: Annual Chartism Day Conference 2019
1 June 2019 @ 09:00 - 17:00
9.00–9.15 Registration.
9.15–9.30 Introduction and Welcome (Joan Allen and Richard Allen, Newcastle).
9.30–10.15 Tom Scriven (Manchester). ‘Chartism’s electoral strategy and the bifurcation of Radicalism’.
10.15–11.00 Joan Allen (Newcastle). ‘Chartist trials, 1839: Revisited’.
Break
11.30–12.15 Mike Greatbatch. (Independent). ‘William Parker: A Chartist Life’.
12.15-13.00 Joe Stanley (Sheffield Hallam). ‘Protest and Popular Politics amongst the Yorkshire Miners, 1786-1839’.
Lunch
2.00–3.00 Keynote Lecture: Robert Poole (UCLAN). ‘Peterloo and Chartism’ – title tbc
3.00–3.45 Mark Bennett (Durham). ‘Chartism’s legacy: the reform debate in Yorkshire, 1859-67’.
Break
4.15-5.00 Matt Roberts (Sheffield Hallam). ‘The Visual and Material Culture of Chartism’.
End of Conference
Sponsors: with grateful thanks to School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, and The Society for the Study of Labour History