George Julian Harney: The Chartists Were Right: Selections from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle Column, 1890-97: 12 (Chartist Studies Series)

ISBN 10: 0850367174 / ISBN 13: 9780850367171

Published by Merlin Press, 2015

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pp. 208.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Julian Harney: The Chartists Were Right: Selections from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle Column, 1890-97: 12 (Chartist Studies Series)
• Publisher: Merlin Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850367174
• ISBN 13: 9780850367171
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

George Julian Harney was one of the half-dozen most important leaders of Chartism. A key figure in the history of English radicalism, Harney witnessed the Chartist movement from 1830s through to the beginnings of socialism from the 1880s and wrote about a range of topics during that time, including literature, foreign affairs, and politics. The youngest member of the first Chartist Convention, he was an advocate of physical-force Chartism in 1838, and he greatest output of writings came from 1843 through 1850 when he worked at the Northern Star. This selection from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle is the first book to reprint any of his journalism.

About the Author

David Goodway taught sociology, history and Victorian studies to mainly adult students at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 2005. For the last twenty years he has written principally on anarchism and libertarian socialism and his books include Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward. His first book was London Chartism 1838-1848.