Chartists.net Recommend a single book about Chartism and the Chartists,
Title
CHARTIST ANCESTORS
Description
For family historians wanting to find their radical roots in the Chartist movement of the nineteenth century
Contact
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- Surrey
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland SM7 1NS
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- 01737212479
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Chartism was a mass working class movement between the years 1838 and 1858 which sought to achieve democracy in the UK. Chartist Ancestors was created in 2003 to provide a source of information about the Chartist Movement for family historians. It provides:
- lists of individual Chartists taken from original and secondary sources, including newspapers and court records, contemporary and later histories;
- research guides to help people track down records in local and national archives; and
- narrative accounts of events in which Chartism played a part, such as the three great petitions presented to Parliament in 1838, 1842 and 1848, mass meetings, riots and armed uprisings.
The site has drawn on current academic historical research, and contributed to interest in the contribution that family history research can make to academic history. This aspect is discussed further in Patrick Leary's Googling the Victorians in the Journal of Victorian Culture. The site is linked with Trade Union Ancestors, which seeks to perform a similar role for the British trade union movement, and with MyTimemachine.co.uk, a "history from below" initiative based on eyewitness accounts of events in British history.
