This is a fine piece by @markcrail.bsky.social on historians and genealogists, amateur and professional, and their digital contact.

Plus #chartism!

#History 🗃️
Reposted from History Workshop
OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament.

Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...

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