Live Q&A with Ray Stroud
Thu 22 Apr
|Zoom Webinar
Ray Stroud's video exploration 'In Search of Jenkin Morgan' is now available to watch online and you are invited to follow the viewing with a live Q&A featuring Ray and hosted by Melinda Drowley
Time & Location
22 Apr 2021, 19:00
Zoom Webinar
About the Event
The next Newport Chartist Convention video talk is by Ray Stroud. He has researched the little known Newport Chartist activist Jenkin Morgan. Ray has produced a video exploring his findings which can be viewed at https://www.newportrising.co.uk/news
ahead of a live Q&A session with Ray, chaired by Melinda Drowley (Chair of Our Chartist Heritage) on the 22 April at 7pm via Zoom.
Event is free but requires registration to receive your email invite to the event.
In Search of Jenkin Morgan: a synopsis
Jenkin Morgan has become part of the invisible landscape of Welsh Chartism. This Pill milkman, tallow chandler and soap boiler was initially sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered alongside John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones at Monmouth in 1840, and yet very few people today even know his name.
As the three ‘Welsh Martyrs’ were shipped off to Tasmania on board the Mandarin, Morgan’s sentence was…