August 12th 1839 was the date marked for the launch Chartist Grand National Holiday – effectively a General Strike to overthrow the ruling classes. In reality it didn’t really get going… there’s ...

All the evidence seems to show, however, that the same individuals were called on time and again both to hold office in their local union organisations and to represent their communities in the wider ...

This is the second part of a two-part article. The first part was posted on November 4. There had been talk of a “sacred month,” effectively a general strike, throughout August 1839. There was ...

Historian Mick Jenkins, in his work the General Strike of 1842, estimates that half a million workers participated in the strike. Nevertheless, ... WALSH reports from the recent ‘Chartism Day’ ...

This is sometimes seen as the end of the Chartist movement in Wales. But clearly this was not the case. It picked up again in the slump of 1842 and in 1847-8 and many signatures were placed on ...

The 1848 Petition. In the years 1839, 1842 and 1848, the Chartist Movement urged Parliament to adopt three great petitions. Of these, the best known is the final petition, with six million ...

A Chartist mural has been unveiled in a Gwent town. It can be found on the side of the Flourmill pub near Blackwood town ...

Witness testimonies from the Chartist's Newport Rising, the last large-scale armed protest in the UK, have been unearthed after nearly 200 years. | ITV News Wales ...