{"id":24773,"date":"2026-02-22T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=24773"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:39:45","slug":"causes-and-characters-of-the-chartist-riot-in-llanidloes-mid-wales-in-1839","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/causes-and-characters-of-the-chartist-riot-in-llanidloes-mid-wales-in-1839\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes and Characters of the Chartist Riot in Llanidloes, Mid Wales in 1839"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24777 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-604x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-604x375.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-100x62.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-270x168.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scene-of-Riot-Great-Oak-Street-Llanidloes.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>The Newport Rising in November 1839 is the most celebrated event in early Chartism linked to Wales. But it marked the disappointing end of a year which had opened with high expectations from the General Convention of the Industrious Classes and the presentation of the National Charter to Parliament. Less renowned, but no less significant, were events in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire earlier in April, when attempts to arrest local Chartist leaders led to a riot in which the established forces of law and order were overthrown and the town placed effectively under the control of the Chartists for five days.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Llanidloes riot that first provoked the imposition of repressive measures against the Chartist Movement, leading to the arrest of its leaders and the growing sense of desperation that manifested itself in the march on Newport. But how did Chartism take root in mid Wales and who were the people, on either side of the political divide, who found themselves caught up in the &#8220;Pum Diwrnod o Ryddid&#8221; (Five Days of Freedom)?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24776 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-604x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-604x674.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-100x112.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-270x301.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27-134x150.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police-arrest.18.27.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newport Rising in November 1839 is the most celebrated event in early Chartism linked to Wales. But it marked the disappointing end of a year which had opened with high expectations from the General Convention of the Industrious Classes and the presentation of the National Charter to Parliament. Less renowned, but no less significant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[187,437,209],"tags":[269,270,2203,2204,2205,1981],"class_list":["post-24773","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-democracy-suffrage","category-revolution-rebellion","category-riots-disturbances","tag-chartism","tag-chartists","tag-llanidloes","tag-montgomeryshire","tag-national-charter","tag-rising"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Causes and Characters of the Chartist Riot in Llanidloes, Mid Wales in 1839 - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/causes-and-characters-of-the-chartist-riot-in-llanidloes-mid-wales-in-1839\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Causes and Characters of the Chartist Riot in Llanidloes, Mid Wales in 1839 - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Newport Rising in November 1839 is the most celebrated event in early Chartism linked to Wales. 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