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Mark Crail

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Chartism and other #C19th stuff. Chartist Ancestors website, author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors (Pen & Sword books), web editor Society for the Study of Labour History. Science fiction reader. https://linktr.ee/markcrail

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · Dec 30

🗃️ #C19th #Genealogy #LocalHistory
A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share…
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Need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence?

If you struggle to add, multiply and divide sums of money written in pre-decimal currency, then you are not alone – and you may wish to download the Excel calculator I’ve created for just tha…

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this walk to follow folks mostly considered Nobodies: 2 girls nicked for stealing a piece of cloth in 1825, jailed in Newgate, sentenced to death but later transported for life to Botany Bay. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 4h

A ‘monster meeting’ of West Riding Chartists on Hartshead Moor #OnThisDay 15 October 1838 adopts the People’s Charter. It elects William Rider, Feargus O’Connor, Peter Bussey, Lawrence Pitkeithley and James Paul Cobbett as delegates to the first Chartist convention, to take place in 1839.

Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 18h

Congrats. Quite cheered me up when I turned on the Kindle and it downloaded itself.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Out today, the latest Tyrant Philosophers piece - book 3.5 in the series is a novella length offering about the life of Angilly, who we met in Days of Shattered Faith. You don’t need to have read that (or any of them) to read this.

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 1d

Lives of Bitter Rain by @aptshadow.bsky.social is out today!

A novella in the Tyrant Philosophers series, this book takes a deep dive into the character of Angilly and her past, and further explores the empire's reach, and the costs of living inside it...

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 5d

How is he keeping his hat on? Is there an elasticated band going under his chin?

A 1965 issue of SCIENCE DIGEST has on its cover "Life in 1990: a Vivid Preview by Isaac Asimov". The illustration is of a commuting businessman, in grey suit and trilby hat, flying through the air towards the city thanks to the jet-pack on his back, a common feature of 1990 as I remember well.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely fascinating. Wade a fascinating figure involved in the Queen Caroline affair, agitation for the Tolpuddle labourers, Chartism and much else besides. Great to see a portrait of him.

Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 9d

Here's a recording of my Warwick Words History Festival Talk on Rev. Arthur Wade, Radical Vicar of Warwick: youtu.be/lessQB7CSJ0

Dave Steele Rev Arthur Wade Radical Vicar of Warwick

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 9d

Thomas Attwood, founder of the Birmingham Political Union and leader of the 1832 Reform Bill agitation who presented the first Chartist petition to Parliament, was born #OnThisDay 6 October 1783.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-attwo...

Thomas Attwood 1783 - 1856 - chartist ancestors

Thomas Attwood was the founder of the Birmingham Political Union, a campaigner for the 1832 Reform Act who was involved in the early stages of Chartism

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 11d

Ooh, that doesn’t look great. Thanks.

Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 11d

A fine crop of #mushrooms in the garden today. Don’t think I’ll try eating them, but out of curiosity does anyone know what they are?

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 12d

John Betjeman, bombs and Slough come to mind.

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 15d

Today's #MastheadMonday is the True Sun (1832-37). Founded by Patrick Grant due to his feud with Murdo Young, who he believed had swindled him out of ownership of the Sun newspaper. Charles Dickens was briefly the paper's Parliamentary reporter. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/true-...

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 16d

What a shame it’s not one of repurposed the Napoleonic cannons. That would definitely be worth wheeling home.

Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 17d

It even has its own Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo...

Galileo's middle finger - Wikipedia

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 17d

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 17d

I do hope so.

Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 17d

For all the science deniers out there: Galileo’s middle finger (as seen in the wonderful Galileo Museum in Florence).

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 18d

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture

18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 19d

Helen Macfarlane, Chartist journalist, translator, and witness to the revolutions of 1848, was born #OnThisDay 25 September 1818
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/helen-macfar...

Helen Macfarlane 1818 - 1860 - chartist ancestors

Helen Macfarlane was the first translator of the Communist Manifesto into English - and was probably the most influential woman in Chartism. This is her life story

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 22d

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Major Cartwright, long time agitator for political reform, dies, St Pancras, 1824
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Today in London radical history: Major Cartwright, long time reform agitator, dies, St Pancras, 1824

John Cartwright, the third son of William Cartwright and Anne Cartwright, was born on 28th September 1740, at Marnham, Nottingham. His brother, Edmund Cartwright, was the inventor of the steam loom…

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 22d

The funeral of the Bethnal Green Chartist martyr Alexander Sharp took place #OnThisDay 23 September 1849 following his death in Tothill Fields Bridewell, London.
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Alexander Sharp, 1821 - 1849 - chartist ancestors

Alexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 22d

The BBC is in many ways a fantastic institution. BBC news is an absolute disgrace.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 24d

James Watson, leader of the campaign for a free press, radical publisher, supporter of the Dorchester labourers and Chartist, was born #OnThisDay 21 September 1799
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/james-watson...

James Watson, 1799 - 1874 - chartist ancestors

James Watson was one of the quartet of radical London publishers who were at the heart of the battle of the unstamped press and later went on to form the London Working Men's Association. Influenced b...

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 28d

London Chartists met at Palace Yard in Westminster #OnThisDay 17 September 1838 to adopt the People’s Charter and elect delegates to the National Convention. Here’s notice of the meeting and the text of the petition
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/petition-for...

Document: Petition for the People's Charter - chartist ancestors

The broadside shown here dates from August 1838, at the very start of the Chartist

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 28d

A nice chance discovery.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · Sep 10

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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Current exhibition | LSE Library

Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

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