The Bevan Foundation is pleased to announce Celebrating Democracy will be on October 15th 2009 at the Newport Centre.

See event page for more details

or visit our website www.bevanfoundation.org

Hope to see you there

Daneka

CHARTIST CELEBRATIONS 2009-10
+ 170th Anniversary Year - South Wales Rising 1839 +



Saturday April 18th
Merthyr Tudful Chartist Festival



Venue: Market Square Church, Merthyr Tudful 9.30am – 4.30pm
Street Theatre (Chance Encounters Theatre) in Lower High Street
Inside the Hall: Lecture - Joe England Merthyr Chartism
'Characters from the Chartist era' answering your questions
Historians debating the ‘Chartist Story’
A multi-media show by UAct2 Theatre Company in 2 parts:
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Reproduced from Americymru

With voting taking place on the 4th in what may well turn out to be a historic election for America we thought it might not be inappropriate to recall a chapter from the struggle in Wales to establish universal suffrage which took place on that date in 1839. The following article is a review of a fascinating book, "The Man From The Alamo" by John Humphries. The book is, amongst other things, a

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On Thursday 6 November 2008 a Chartist march was held in Blackwood to commemorate the 169th anniversary of the Newport Chartist Rising of 4 November 1839.


March and Rally: Democracy and the Chartists

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CHARTIST GIG at the PEN & WIG

4 November

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