Mark Crail

@markcrail.bsky.social

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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.

List of topics: * Radicalism and Political Reform • Class and Chartism • Women's Participation in Chartism • Chartist Leaders and Activists • The Chartist Press • Chartism and Material Culture • Associational Life in the Age of the Chartists • Radical Agrarianism and the Land Plan • International Perspectives • Local and Regional Approaches • The New Poor Law (1834) and the Chartist Agenda • Biographical Studies
Book cover: Pret3enders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
A pile of books, all the same, copies of Chartist Lives by Mark Crail
Map showing mostly sea to the east of Australia. Norfolk Island is a small dot east of Cairns and north of New Zealand surrounded by ocean.
Front cover: Chartist Lives - 42 pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists
Inside of medieval Westminster hall with 14th century hammer beam ceiling. Very few people there.
Results from searching ‘Feargus’ as a given name in the civil registration birth index. First 50 results listed in rows, but multiple pages to follow.
Portrait of woman in Victorian clothes. The photo is in an ornate gold photo frame, the left hand side of which is red velvet lined so that it folds closed.
Book cover. Text: Chartist Lives: 42 pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists, by Mark Crail
Engraving of the 1842 Chartist convention members sitting round a table on which there is a large amount of paperwork. The image has been edited so that there is a Christmas tree in the corner of the room and some members wear Christmas hats and jumpers.
Sepia portrait photograph of elderly woman in 19th century working class clothing include a lace bonnet.