Chartism Day 2025 will take place on Saturday, 6 September at Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield.

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PAPERS
Professor Peter Gurney: The Chartist Revolution: an argument
Dr Joan Allen Daniel O’Connell, the Chartists and contested understandings of the language of emancipation, 1819-1840
Dr Dave Steele: The Powerful Crowd: reputational power and Chartist meetings
Professor Stephen Milner: Pre-modern Italy and the working class: the renaissance of Chartism
Dr Martin Wright: The Chartist Landscape

CHARTIST LIVES
Dr Joe Stanley on John Auty
Dr Richard C. Allen on Samuel Cook
Tim Malloch on William Cuffay
Dr Vic Clarke on Joshua Hobson

ARCHIVE REPORTS
Dr Janette Martin: New and Rediscovered sources for Peterloo
Duncan Hamilton: Chartism and Co-operation: Cataloguing Chartists in the National Co-operative Archive

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Huddersfield has a rich Chartist history emerging from previous campaigns against the introduction of the New Poor Law and from the Ten Hours factory movement in the 1830s. Joshua Hobson, who printed and published the Northern Star, was born here (and is buried in the town’s cemetery) and an Owenite Hall of Science, which hosted numerous Chartism meetings in the 1840s, still stands on Bath Street.

More of this history can be found in a Huddersfield Local History Society book, titled The Charter, Our Right! Huddersfield Chartism Re-considered.

Chartism Day is now a regular calendar fixture. The first Chartism Day was held at the University of Birmingham in 1993, and it has taken place every year since then except in 2020 and 2021 when it took a break due to Covid restrictions.

Read our report on Chartism Day 2024.