To register, please send a cheque for £13, payable to Sheffield Hallam University, to: Matthew Roberts, Owen Building Department of Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, S1 1WB.

Programme

10.00-10.20 Registration and coffee

10.20-10.30 Welcome

10.30-12.15 Panel 1

Martin Hewitt (University of Huddersfield), ‘Chartism and the Taxes on Knowledge Campaign’

Robert G Hall (Ball State University), ‘Bookstores for the Millions: The Politics of Reading and Chartism, 1838-1848’

David Goodway, ‘George Julian Harney’s Late Journalism: The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle column, 1890-97’

12:15 Lunch

1.30-3:15 Panel 2

Jenny Cadwallender (PhD candidate. Manchester University), ‘“Amidst Tears, Cheers and Execrations”: Domesticity and the Politics of Chartist Women’

Timothy Keane, ‘Chartism and the Irish Famine’

Fabrice Bensimon, ‘Fraternal Democrats, French Republican Exiles and London Chartists’

3.15: Tea Break

3.30-4.30 Panel 3

Steve Poole, ‘Chartism and the Rural World’

Katrina Navickas, ‘What next for Chartist Studies’

4.30 Closing remarks

*NB: Professor Paul Pickering (ANU), leading historian of Chartism, will be giving a public lecture on Friday 28 June, entitled ‘Telling the peoples’ story: writing, representing and selling the past in the age of affective history’. The lecture will commence at 6pm in the Peak Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University’s City Campus. Please contact Matthew Roberts for further details.