Tickets for Chartism Day 2026 are now available. This year’s event takes place on Saturday 19 September at Friends Meeting House, Warwick, and is open to all.

Among the topics covered in this year’s conference will be talks on:

• The eighteen fustian jackets: who carried the 1841 petition?
• Augustus and Arthur Beaumont and Chartist Apologias for American Slavery
• The Northern Star’s local correspondents in 1839, 1842, and 1848.

We will also be discussing the Chartist Lives of the radical vicar of Warwick, Rev Arthur Wade, and the Chartist missionary, John Mason. There will also be a tribute during the day to Iori Prothero, the distinguished historian of artisan radicalism who died earlier this year. The full programme will be published in due course.

Tickets are priced at £12 and include refreshments and a light buffet lunch. All are welcome, but registration is required.

Book your tickets here.

What is Chartism Day?

The Chartism Day Conferences were launched at the University of Birmingham in September 1995 by the renowned Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011).

Apart from the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, the annual meetings, which are endorsed by the Society for the Study of Labour History [SSLH], have been held in a variety of locations across England, Wales, Ireland and France every year since, bringing together senior academics, emerging scholars and members of the wider public who all share a common interest in the history of the Chartist movement.

As well as a strong contingent of labour historians, Chartism Day draws together a broad cross-section of academics from the diverse fields of the arts and humanities. It is this interdisciplinary environment that gives the event its distinctively dynamic and productive character.

Read last year’s report.