We go see Julie Hesmondhaigh (formally of Accrington) in a play in Manchester next Thursday.
https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/the-greatest-play-in-the-history-of-the-world-2018
Then we bugger off to Mid-Wales for a week in a rented cottage .......i may take photos?
William Cuffay and the London Chartists, 1842
"The 1832 Reform Act had extended the vote to more men with property
but the working class still did not have a vote. A nationwide campaign
involving men and women called for change and they became known as The
Chartists, the first mass working class movement in Britain. The
People’s Charter of 1838 demanded votes for all men, constituencies of
equal size, the abolition of the property qualification, annual
parliaments and salaries for members of Parliament. Portrayed is a
meeting of the London Chartists in Whitechapel, in 1842, with William
Cuffay, the son of a slave and the elected President of the London
Chartists. He was transported to Tasmania for his endeavours, later
pardoned, and continued to be politically active there."
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