31 October 2007 | As the Chartist Anniversay weekend approaches, in commemoration of the Newport Chartist Rising of 4 November 1839, we are pleased to present the first video clip of the Newport Chartist Mural (John Frost Square, Newport):
More | Newport Chartist Mural Documentation Project
Chartist insurrrection at Newport | "We have already mentioned that there was scarcely any town of importance in the manufacturing districts whose tranquility was not compromised by the chartists in the course of the year.
We have, however, now to relate the particulars of an insurrection even more alarming than the Birmingham outrage, which broke out at Newport in Monmouthshire at the close of 1839.
This town is the capital of a tract of country called the Hill district, which forms a sort of triangle, the apex of which may be placed at Risca, five miles from Newport, the base at about a distance of fifteen or twenty miles.
The whole region is intersected by glens watered by streams, and maintains a mining population of nearly forty thousand persons in regions which fifty years ago exhibited nothing but the scattered dwellings of a few shepherds".
| The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year 1839 [ Published 1840 J.G. & F. Rivington. Available as a public domain book in Google Books ]
Newport Chartist Mural ( Video v1.0 )
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