Celebrate the Chartists - Britain’s first mass campaign for social justice
Hosted by SWCHIR (University of South Wales)
Venue: Newport City Campus, University of South Wales
Free entry for all - please book in advance Doors open 09.30
10.15 Introduction: Dr. Carl Peters
10.30 Colin Gibson: ‘Trails to Trials: Gwent Chartism Project’ (Gwent Archives)
10.50 Les James & David Osmond The Endurance of Chartism at Newport
after the Rising of 1839
11.20 Coffee Break
11.50 Professor Angela V. John (Aberystwyth University):
From Women's Suffrage in Newport to the Six Point Group - The
Campaigns of Lady Rhondda
13.00 BUFFET LUNCH available £6 (must be ordered at time of booking)
13.50 Sarah Richards: My Chartist Ancestor - William Davies of Blackwood
14.15 Christabel Hutchings: Found in the archives - a ‘Chartist’ Letter from
Cardiff to Pontypool
14.40 Film (Glyn Waters): The Blaenau Gwent Project
15.00 Short interval
15.20 Discussion: Exploring Connections - Chartism in Bristol and Newport
15.40 Finale:
Songs from ‘The Forgotten’ musical drama performed by Drama students
from the University of South Wales (Director: Vanessa Dodd)
Concluding remarks: Jayne Bryant and Pat Drewett (Newport Accent Trust)
Sunday 03 November
Chartism Blaenau Gwent
Llanhilleth Miners Institute
organised by Blaenau Gwent Historical and Chartist Society
13.00 to 18.00 coach excursion from the Llanhilleth Institute around the important Chartist sites in Blaenau Gwent.
13.00 to 18.00 coach excursion from the Llanhilleth Institute around the important Chartist sites in Blaenau Gwent.
Chartist Project.
BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE, but places are limited
CONTACT: Ivor Beynon 07787731209
