South Wales Rising of the Chartists 1839
175th Anniversary Autumn 2013
Celebrate
the Chartists - Britain’s first mass campaign for social
justice
Saturday 02 November 10.15 -16.15
South Wales Chartist Convention
Hosted by SWCHIR (University of South Wales)
Venue: Newport City Campus, University of South Wales
Free entry for all - please book in
advance Doors open 09.30
10.15 Introduction: Dr. Carl Peters
10.30 Colin Gibson: ‘Trails to Trials:
Gwent Chartism Project’ (Gwent Archives)
10.50 Les James & David Osmond The Endurance of Chartism at Newport
after the Rising of 1839
11.20 Coffee Break
11.50 Professor Angela V. John
(Aberystwyth University):
From Women's Suffrage in Newport to the Six Point Group - The
Campaigns of Lady Rhondda
13.00 BUFFET LUNCH available £6
(must be ordered at time of booking)
13.50 Sarah Richards: My Chartist Ancestor - William Davies of
Blackwood
14.15 Christabel Hutchings: Found in
the archives - a ‘Chartist’ Letter from
Cardiff to Pontypool
14.40 Film (Glyn Waters): The Blaenau Gwent
Project
15.00 Short interval
15.20 Discussion: Exploring Connections - Chartism in Bristol and Newport
15.40 Finale:
Songs from ‘The
Forgotten’ musical drama
performed by Drama students
from the University of South Wales (Director: Vanessa
Dodd)
Concluding remarks: Jayne
Bryant and Pat Drewett (Newport Accent Trust)
Contact: [email protected] 02920613359
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Sunday
03 November
Chartism Blaenau Gwent
Llanhilleth Miners Institute
organised by Blaenau Gwent Historical and Chartist Society
13.00 to 18.00 coach excursion from the
Llanhilleth Institute around the important Chartist sites in Blaenau Gwent.
18.00 to 23.00 Celebration at the Institute of the completion of the Blaenau Gwent Chartist Project.
BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE, but places are limited
CONTACT: Ivor Beynon 07787731209
Monday, 04 November 18.00
Annual Commemoration of the Chartists who died at
Newport in November 1839
St.
Woolos churchyard at the Newport Cathedral
The
Mayor of the City of Newport and the Dean of the Cathedral are attending
All are welcome
Monday 04 November 19.30
Premiere Performance :
Let thy Foes Appear! - The opponents of
Chartism
This is a ‘orrible history story related with humour
by
Goff Morgan (Newport’s leading poet)
and Paul Busby (author)
and the musical entertainment of Frank Henessy and the Hennessys
Venue: St. Mary’s Institute, Stow Hill
Bar and refreshments
Tickets: £8
Enjoy a ‘Night Out’ Promotion sponsored by Arts Council of Wales
Contact: Richard Frame [email protected] or 01633
411543
Monday 04 November 19.00
Songs of Praise
Venue: Salem Chapel, Blaina
There will be opportunity to visit Salem’s Chartist exhibition
Contact: Steve Bartlett 01495 292817
Tuesday 05 November 13.30
Children’s Chartist March, Stow Hill
Local school children proceed from St. Woolos to
the Westgate Hotel for a dramatic celebration of the People’s Charter for
political rights published in May 1838 (175 years ago) performed at the site
where Chartists died in November 1838.
Contact: Annette Wells, Newport Museum
Tel: 01633 851614
OTHER EVENTS in South Wales - Celebrating the Chartists
Wednesday 16 October 19.00
6th Annual Merthyr Chartist Lecture
Speaker: Huw Williams
Chartism in the 1840s: the Merthyr Tydfil
Endurance
Venue: Dowlais Library, Merthyr
Free event sponsored by the Merthyr Chartist Forum & Dic Penderyn Society
CONTACT: Huw Williams 07968256864
Wednesday
06 November 19.00
Concert: Ebbw Vale Male Choir
Venue: Wesleyan Chapel, Nant y Glo
Contact: Steve Bartlett 01495 292817
Thursday 07 November 14.30
Guided Visit to the Round Towers at Ty
Mawr Farm (Nant y glo)
where the militia were billeted following the Rising
(Access by the kind permission of Mr. Glyn Jones).
Contact: Eifion Lloyd Davies 01495 312936 or Steve Bartlett 01495 292817
Thursday
07 November 19.00
Nant y Glo
Rugby Club
A talk about the ‘Scotch Cattle’
movement
and buffet (£3)
Contact: Eifion Lloyd Davies 01495 312936
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