Chartist Convention 2023

The annual Newport Chartist Convention will take place on Saturday November 4th at St Woolos Cathedral, beginning at 10 o’clock. 

Tickets are now available, price £15.00 including tea, coffee and lunch

Full agenda for the day to be announced. Confirmed speakers to include:

Mapping Chartists and the importance of locality.

Katrina Navickas

This paper is about the potential of digital tools for examining Chartism. It maps the locations of Chartist activists, nominations to the National Convention, and subscribers to the Land Plan using Geographic Information Systems software. It argues for using such digital tools to map networks of activism, the long history of political activity in particular districts of towns, and the material and spatial elements of protest and procession routes. In so doing, digital tools can help illuminate the significance of locality and place in Chartist activism on a day-to-day level.