Chartist Convention 2025

Chartist Convention 2025 at The Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre

Programme:

10.30 - 10.35 Introduction by Dr Elin Jones
10.35 - 11.25 Martyn Wright: The Chartist Landscape
11.25 - 11.45 Raymond Stroud: The John Frost Protest Coin
11.45 -12.00 Coffee Break and coin sales etc.
12.00 -12.45. Rhian E Jones
12.45 - 13.00 HERSTORY

LUNCH

14.00 -14.45 Introduction by Jayne Bryant.

Huw Williams: Merthyr Chartism

14.45 -15.00 Tea and coin sales etc.
15.00 -15.45 Gavin Eynon: The Trial of John Frost
15.45 -16.00 Julian Haymen: Musical Interlude
16.00 CLOSING REMARKS

You may also like the following events from Newport Rising:

• Next Saturday, 25th October, 05:00 pm, Born to Rule - The inaugural Chartist Legacy Lecture - with Professor Sam Friedman (LSE) in Newport
• Next month, 1st November, 05:00 pm, Torchlit march | Newport Rising 2025 | March in the footsteps of the Chartists 186th Anniversary in Newport

Also check out other Arts events in Newport.