The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 09:30 am to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Nexus - University of Leeds | Leeds

Northern History
Publisher/HostNorthern History
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Join us for The Radical North, 1779–1914, a symposium exploring the history of radicalism in memory of Malcolm Chase.
About this Event

The journal , with the support of the School of History, University of Leeds and the Social History Society, is organising a symposium to celebrate the life and work of Professor Malcolm Chase, author of many important works on British popular radicalism and labour history including (Manchester University Press, 2007) and (Manchester University Press, 2013).


Programme

09:30-10:00: Coffee and registration

10:00-10:30: Opening address

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

10:30-12:00: Panel 1: Radicalism before Chartism

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)

12:00-13:00: Lunch

13:00-14:00: Roundtable: The Legacy of Malcolm Chase

Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire)

Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire, emeritus)

Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University)

Chair: Joan Allen (Newcastle University)

14:00-15:30: Panel 2: Chartism and its Legacy

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 (Rose Bruford College): ‘Representations of the later lives of Chartist activists in the Northern provincial press, 1860-1900’

Chair: Vic Clarke (independent scholar)

15:30-15:45: Break

15:45-17:15: Panel 3: After Chartism

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)

17:15-17:30: Break

17:30-19:00: Book Launch

We will be celebrating the launch of Professor Andrea Major’s book, (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Nexus - University of Leeds, Discovery Way, Leeds, United Kingdom

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