Howell, George (1833-1910) 1839-1912

Reform Demonstration Committee

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Howell, George, 1833-1910

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Born, 1833, Wrington; education was both sporadic and rudimentary, ending before he was twelve; at the age of eight he began working as a ploughboy, later moving to assist his father as a mortar boy and, in 1847, he became apprenticed to a Wrington shoemaker; largely self-taught, he was to become a voracious reader, notably of religious tracts and radical periodicals; enrolled in a local Chartist group, 1848, and underwent conversion to Wesleyan Methodism and taught at Sunday school. At the end ...

Jones, Ernest Charles, 1819-1869

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English chartist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : London, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1860 May 31, June 2 and June 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881250 English militant socialist writer and leader of the Chartist movement; publisher of two newspapers propagating Marxist doctrines. From the description of Papers, 1819-1869. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122530100 From the description ...

Dowding Estate

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Reform League

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Plimsoll and Seamen's Fund Committee

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Working Men's Association

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The International Workingmen's Association (IWA) was organized in London at a mass meeting of European trade unionists in 1864. Karl Marx was elected to the General Council and he organized the International as a propaganda vehicle for international socialism. Until about 1869 the International concentrated on organizing trade unions. After that the International became interested in gaining support for itself in the United States. It found support in two rival factions of American socialists, t...

Trades Union Congress. Education and Social Affairs Department

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The Trades Union Congress is a voluntary association of trade unions which was formed in Manchester in 1868. It forms the largest pressure group in the United Kingdom and works to improve the rights and conditions of working people. In achieving its aims the TUC has played a role both in many Government organisations and in the political wing of the Labour movement. Such a history has resulted in its archives being a rich source for the study of the political, economic and social hi...