Chartist Convention 2025

*** ONLINE SALES NOW STOPPED - LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE ON DOOR AT THE RIVERFRONT ***

This year's convention is at the Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre, in the studio theatre.

Tickets £15 to include tea and coffee

Morning

10.30 - 10.35 Introduction by Dr Elin Jones

10.35 - 11.25 Martyn Wright: The Chartist Landscape

11.25 - 11.45 Raymond Stroud: The John Frost Protest Coin

11.45 -12.00 Coffee Break and coin sales etc.

12.00 -12.45. Rhian E Jones: The Rebecca Riots and Chartism

12.45 - 13.00 Adele Cordner and Claire Drewett of Herstory theatre company on their new production, Pianoforte, about the life of Mary Frost

LUNCH

14.00 -14.05 Introduction by Jayne Bryant.

14.00 -14.45 Huw Williams: Merthyr Chartism

14.45 -15.00 Tea and coin sales etc.

15.00 -15.45 Gavin Eynon: The Trial of John Frost

15.45 -16.00 Music and poetry from Julian Hayman and Laura Wainwright

16.00 CLOSING REMARKS