Mark Crail
@markcrail.bsky.social
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
Gosh, number 21 in Amazon’s historical biographies category. Albeit number 40,715 in the overall best-sellers list.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Gosh, number 21 in Amazon’s historical biographies category. Albeit number 40,715 in the overall best-sellers list.
Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
Elm Hill, Norwich. There was rioting here during the general election of 1841 after John Dover took a bribe to withdraw the Chartist candidate.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Elm Hill, Norwich. There was rioting here during the general election of 1841 after John Dover took a bribe to withdraw the Chartist candidate.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
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?
October 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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?
For all the science deniers out there: Galileo’s middle finger (as seen in the wonderful Galileo Museum in Florence).
September 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For all the science deniers out there: Galileo’s middle finger (as seen in the wonderful Galileo Museum in Florence).
Just been into Tesco Express on The Strand where Henry Hetherington had his bookshop. Not a single copy of the Charter or the Northern Star on display. Can only imagine they’d sold out.
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just been into Tesco Express on The Strand where Henry Hetherington had his bookshop. Not a single copy of the Charter or the Northern Star on display. Can only imagine they’d sold out.
John Dover, Norwich Chartist, a silk weaver, beer house keeper and, in his own words, a ‘noisy fellow’, died #OnThisDay 12 September 1865, in Launceston, Tasmania.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
September 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
John Dover, Norwich Chartist, a silk weaver, beer house keeper and, in his own words, a ‘noisy fellow’, died #OnThisDay 12 September 1865, in Launceston, Tasmania.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-dover-1...
Great to see you again, Vic. Enjoyed your paper on Joshua Hobson…
September 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Great to see you again, Vic. Enjoyed your paper on Joshua Hobson…
Hartshead Moor. Here on 15 October 1838, thousands of Wet Riding radicals met to adopt the People’s Charter. Rather fewer of us will be gathering just up the road in Huddersfield later on for #ChartismDay
September 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Hartshead Moor. Here on 15 October 1838, thousands of Wet Riding radicals met to adopt the People’s Charter. Rather fewer of us will be gathering just up the road in Huddersfield later on for #ChartismDay
Plaque opposite the Tate Gallery to commemorate Millbank Prison, which previously stood on the site. MI6 building in the background across the river.
September 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Plaque opposite the Tate Gallery to commemorate Millbank Prison, which previously stood on the site. MI6 building in the background across the river.
Good to see a bit of #Chartism at @tate.bsky.social this morning. William Cuffay was briefly a guest at Millbank prison, which stood on the site now occupied by the Tate, before being transported to Australia 1/2
September 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Good to see a bit of #Chartism at @tate.bsky.social this morning. William Cuffay was briefly a guest at Millbank prison, which stood on the site now occupied by the Tate, before being transported to Australia 1/2
A very welcome addition to the virtual TBR pile: @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on the fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
August 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A very welcome addition to the virtual TBR pile: @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on the fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Still just about time to book your ticket for Chartism Day
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
August 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Still just about time to book your ticket for Chartism Day
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
The Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor was released from prison in York Castle #OnThisDay 26 August 1841. The medal shown here was issued to commemorate his release.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/feargus-ocon...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/feargus-ocon...
August 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor was released from prison in York Castle #OnThisDay 26 August 1841. The medal shown here was issued to commemorate his release.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/feargus-ocon...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/feargus-ocon...
Delighted to have been able to track down the life story of Robert Knox, County Durham's delegate to the First Chartist Convention. Another Chartist who left Britain for a better life Australia. #Chartism #C19th #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/robert-knox/
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/robert-knox/
August 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Delighted to have been able to track down the life story of Robert Knox, County Durham's delegate to the First Chartist Convention. Another Chartist who left Britain for a better life Australia. #Chartism #C19th #History
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/robert-knox/
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/robert-knox/
Just two and a bit weeks to Chartism Day. Don’t forget to register…
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
August 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just two and a bit weeks to Chartism Day. Don’t forget to register…
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
The London Chartist William Cuffay died #OnThisDay 29 July 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, more than twenty years after he was exiled for his part in the Orange Tree conspiracy.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-cuff...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-cuff...
July 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The London Chartist William Cuffay died #OnThisDay 29 July 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, more than twenty years after he was exiled for his part in the Orange Tree conspiracy.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-cuff...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-cuff...
After its early success at Hastings, the conquest of England soon ran into logistical difficulties
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htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
July 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
After its early success at Hastings, the conquest of England soon ran into logistical difficulties
htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/