Annual Chartist Conference - Newport, 2008
* Organised by the Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and the South Wales Centre for History and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR). | Conference programme http://timezone.newport.ac.uk/SWCHIR/Chartism%20Day,%20Newport/Chartism%20Day_Programme.htm
This video clip records the conference procedings:
- from the lecture theatre, to:
- Newport city centre, a walk of Chartist sites including the Chartist Memorial at the Westgate Hotel, site of the 1839 Newport Chartist Rising, and the soon-to-be-demolished Chartist Mural in John Frost Square
- and Sunday's Chartist Tour which started at the Ridgeway, Newport, which provided a military observation point and was occupied by armed special constables on the eve of the Rising, 3 November 1839; proceeding north through the Monmouthshire valleys to the Chartist exhibition and information centre at the Salem Chapel, Blaina, and the Nantyglo Chartist Round Towers at the site of the Coalbrookvale iron works.
