Mark Crail
@markcrail.bsky.social
Chartism and other #C19th stuff. Chartist Ancestors website, author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, web editor Society for the Study of Labour History. Science fiction reader. https://linktr.ee/markcrail
Somewhat battered but I love it. Must have been amazing when freshly printed.
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Somewhat battered but I love it. Must have been amazing when freshly printed.
Ooh, thank you. At least from that I know I was looking in roughly the right area!
January 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Ooh, thank you. At least from that I know I was looking in roughly the right area!
What a great letter! I love Abney Park: I visited a while back to hunt down the grave of London Chartists Henry & Lucy Vincent and John Cleave. Walked round in circles for ages peering in bemusement at my map in a fruitless search for Bronterre. I suspect I walked past him two or three times.
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
What a great letter! I love Abney Park: I visited a while back to hunt down the grave of London Chartists Henry & Lucy Vincent and John Cleave. Walked round in circles for ages peering in bemusement at my map in a fruitless search for Bronterre. I suspect I walked past him two or three times.
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A wonderful read! Alongside my particular interest in the long history of Ireland in London, I volunteer in Abney Park Cemetery & so regularly pass James Bronterre O'Brien's grave.
I love this letter written by Victor Hugo apologising for not being able to attend O'Brien's funeral in Abney Park
I love this letter written by Victor Hugo apologising for not being able to attend O'Brien's funeral in Abney Park
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
A wonderful read! Alongside my particular interest in the long history of Ireland in London, I volunteer in Abney Park Cemetery & so regularly pass James Bronterre O'Brien's grave.
I love this letter written by Victor Hugo apologising for not being able to attend O'Brien's funeral in Abney Park
I love this letter written by Victor Hugo apologising for not being able to attend O'Brien's funeral in Abney Park
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Thank you. Good luck with your Coldingham Craigs. If you have access to it, a search of the Northern Star online is always a good place to start.
January 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Thank you. Good luck with your Coldingham Craigs. If you have access to it, a search of the Northern Star online is always a good place to start.
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Also for U in our #1832AtoZ we have Universal Suffrage, one of the demands of the People's Charter. Find out more here about the response of the House of Commons to the Chartists: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
The People’s Charter and the Victorian Commons
On 8 May 1838 the People’s Charter was first published. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, we consider the initial response of Victorian MPs to the Charter and the ways in which the History of Par…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Also for U in our #1832AtoZ we have Universal Suffrage, one of the demands of the People's Charter. Find out more here about the response of the House of Commons to the Chartists: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
Astonishingly high number of Chartists went to Australia or America of their own accord, so they’d have been in good company. There are a whole load of land company shareholders in the Chartist Ancestors databank, but largely Manchester, Lancashire, London www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-anc...
Chartist Ancestors Databank - chartist ancestors
Download the Chartist Ancestors Databank listing more than 10,500 Chartists in Excel format and use it in your research project
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January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Astonishingly high number of Chartists went to Australia or America of their own accord, so they’d have been in good company. There are a whole load of land company shareholders in the Chartist Ancestors databank, but largely Manchester, Lancashire, London www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-anc...
Some of the transcriptions are truly awful. I know it’s all done by volunteers but there should be some quality control. Still, you found them - and good to be able to say with some certainty that the parents were Chartists.
January 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Some of the transcriptions are truly awful. I know it’s all done by volunteers but there should be some quality control. Still, you found them - and good to be able to say with some certainty that the parents were Chartists.