Mark Crail
@markcrail.bsky.social
Chartism and other #C19th stuff. Chartist Ancestors website, author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors (Pen & Sword books), web editor Society for the Study of Labour History. Science fiction reader. https://linktr.ee/markcrail
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Mark Crail
@markcrail.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence?
If you struggle to add, multiply and divide sums of money written in pre-decimal currency, then you are not alone – and you may wish to download the Excel calculator I’ve created for just tha…
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A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share…
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A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share…
chartistancestors.blog/2023/07/12/n...
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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My study day on 19th-Century Mental Health History is now booking: hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My study day on 19th-Century Mental Health History is now booking: hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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Thomas Martin Wheeler, London correspondent for the Northern Star, was born #OnThisDay 23 November 1811
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Thomas Martin Wheeler, 1811 - 1862 - chartist ancestors
A Chartist journalist, author and organiser, Thomas Martin Wheeler was at the heart of the Chartist movement throughout the 1840s, and went on to build one of Britain's biggest mutual societies. This ...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thomas Martin Wheeler, London correspondent for the Northern Star, was born #OnThisDay 23 November 1811
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
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Thomas Martin Wheeler, London correspondent for the Northern Star, was born #OnThisDay 23 November 1811
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
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Thomas Martin Wheeler, 1811 - 1862 - chartist ancestors
A Chartist journalist, author and organiser, Thomas Martin Wheeler was at the heart of the Chartist movement throughout the 1840s, and went on to build one of Britain's biggest mutual societies. This ...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thomas Martin Wheeler, London correspondent for the Northern Star, was born #OnThisDay 23 November 1811
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Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
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This is an exciting find: the remains of the building used by the House of Commons as its temporary chamber between 1835 and 1851. If you want to know what that building looked like, see our short article: historyofparliament.com/2025/09/25/t...
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is an exciting find: the remains of the building used by the House of Commons as its temporary chamber between 1835 and 1851. If you want to know what that building looked like, see our short article: historyofparliament.com/2025/09/25/t...
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page
But where does he stand in the pantheon of Greek, Roman or Norse gods? Is he, like John Lennon but probably more so, bigger than Jesus?
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
But where does he stand in the pantheon of Greek, Roman or Norse gods? Is he, like John Lennon but probably more so, bigger than Jesus?
Joshua Hobson, printer, publisher and editor of the Chartist Northern Star newspaper, was born #OnThisday 20 November 1810 www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joshua-hobso...
Joshua Hobson, 1810 - 1876 - chartist ancestors
Joshua Hobson was printer, publisher and later editor of the Northern Star. Though Feargus O’Connor
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November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Joshua Hobson, printer, publisher and editor of the Chartist Northern Star newspaper, was born #OnThisday 20 November 1810 www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joshua-hobso...
It’s snowing. In Surrey.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It’s snowing. In Surrey.
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
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www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
Love this painting
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Anatomy of a Painting: 'Work', by Ford Madox Brown
A street scene in Hampstead.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Love this painting
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Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry.
londonist.com/london/art-a...
londonist.com/london/art-a...
The Tolpuddle Martyrs Mural: A Colourful Celebration Of Trade Unions
A tribute to six men who were deported for forming a trade union.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry.
londonist.com/london/art-a...
londonist.com/london/art-a...
Samuel Holberry - Revolutionary Democrat.
New book about the Sheffield Chartist 📕
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New book about the Sheffield Chartist 📕
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Samuel Holberry: Sheffield’s Chartist martyr
Samuel Holberry – Revolutionary Democrat 1814-1842, by John Baxter and Steven Kay (1889 Books, 2025). Samuel Holberry book cover. No one knows as much about Samuel Holberry as John Baxter. Arriving…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Samuel Holberry - Revolutionary Democrat.
New book about the Sheffield Chartist 📕
chartistancestors.blog/2025/11/09/s...
New book about the Sheffield Chartist 📕
chartistancestors.blog/2025/11/09/s...
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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New Yorkers faced the choice between hope and fear, and just like we've seen in London, hope won.
Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign.
Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!
Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign.
Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
New Yorkers faced the choice between hope and fear, and just like we've seen in London, hope won.
Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign.
Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!
Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign.
Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
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Private Eye nailing it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Private Eye nailing it.
Two more Chartist Lives on the Chartist Ancestors website: City of London Chartists John and Elizabeth Windeler
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www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-windele...
John Windeler, 1814 – 1868, and Elizabeth Windeler, 1817 – 1891 - chartist ancestors
John and Elizabeth Windeler were never prominent in Chartism and probably played only a small
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October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Two more Chartist Lives on the Chartist Ancestors website: City of London Chartists John and Elizabeth Windeler
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/john-windele...
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There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out.
But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out.
But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
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#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
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It's here!
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's here!
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Can anyone point me towards the 1841 UK Census Report (the overview with occupational overviews etc, not the individual data)? Can’t find it on Ancestry or Findmypast and the Online Historical Pop’n Reports website is constantly “too busy” and unusable.
#Genealogy #UKCensus #Census
#Genealogy #UKCensus #Census
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Can anyone point me towards the 1841 UK Census Report (the overview with occupational overviews etc, not the individual data)? Can’t find it on Ancestry or Findmypast and the Online Historical Pop’n Reports website is constantly “too busy” and unusable.
#Genealogy #UKCensus #Census
#Genealogy #UKCensus #Census