Conference: The Radical North, 1779-1914

Simon Morgan (Leeds Beckett University): Welcome and housekeeping

Julia Barrow (University of Leeds): Malcolm Chase and Northern History

Jill Liddington (University of Leeds): Malcolm Chase and the University of Leeds Extra-Mural Department

Andrea Major (University of Leeds): Malcolm Chase the University of Leeds School of History

Callum Manchester (University of Cambridge), ‘”Moderation” and “Radicalism”: Christopher Wyvill and the Yorkshire Association’

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle University): ‘The Making of Thomas Spence: The Radical Political Culture of late eighteenth-century Newcastle’

Harriet Gray (Newcastle University): ‘John Marshall: Radical Politics and the Print Culture of early nineteenth-century Newcastle’

Vic Clarke (independent scholar): ‘Richard Oastler and Yorkshire Political Celebrity, 1830-1847’

Chair: Simon Morgan (Leeds Beckett University)

Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire)

Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire, emeritus)

Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University)

Chair: Joan Allen (Newcastle University)

Christopher Day (Nottingham Trent University): ‘Unjust, tyrannical, arbitrary, and despotic’: Radical dissension from the Public Health Act 1848 and the legacies of Chartism in Clitheroe, Lancashire’

Joy Brindle (Durham University): ‘To do work for the Working Man’: the social networking of Thomas Dixon of Sunderland, 1855-80’

Henry Miller (Northumbria University): ‘The Humble Petitioners: Working People’s Petitions to Parliament after Chartism’

Andrew Walker (independent scholar): ‘Representations of the later lives of Chartist activists in the Northern provincial press, 1860-1900’

Chair: Vic Clarke (independent scholar)

Martin Wright (Cardiff University): ‘The “Socialist Revival” in the North: The Northumberland Miners’ Strike, 1887’

Jordan Clark (University of St Andrews): ‘The Radical Verse of the Pitmen Poets’

Tobin O’Connor (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘The Labour Church: A Religious and Political Anomaly that Laid the Foundations for Labour Movements in 1890s Britain’

Laura Forster (University of York): ‘‘Friends in the North: Reading, Rambling, and Revolutionary Fellowship’

Chair: Clare Griffiths (Cardiff University)

We will be celebrating the launch of Professor Andrea Major’s book, Reimagining Empire in India: George Thompson, Anti-Slavery Activism, and the Global Networks of British Colonial Reform, 1831-1858 (Bloomsbury 2024). Please note that registration for this event is separate to registration for the main conference. Find out more, and book your place, on the event webpage.