Newport Radical Bookfair and Chartist Convention 2025

Free entry radical book fair featuring stalls, book sales, zines, print and stickers plus workshops and talks. More information here. Bristol Radical History Group will have a bookstall at this event. And at the same venue, same day....the excellent.... Tickets for the Chartist Convention are £15 (includes tea and coffee) and require booking. More information and booking here.

Newport Chartist Convention – 2021

Court drama, pioneering photography and toppling statues...Newport Chartist Convention 2021 The annual Newport Chartist Convention will take place at St Woolos Cathedral 105 Stow Hill, Newport NP20 4ED, UK. There is a full programme of lectures, with guest speakers including Professor Joan Allen on Legality and Injustice in the Age of the Chartists, with reference to Regina v Frost in 1840; Roger Ball and Mark Steeds will discuss the Rise and Fall of Edward Colston; and Dave Steele will look at […]