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The Calton weavers were a community of handweavers established in the community of Calton, then in Lanarkshire just outside Glasgow, Scotland in the 18th century. [1] In 1787 the weavers went on strike. Troops opened fire on the demonstrators and six weavers were killed. [2]
Aug 5, 2019 · This paper examines the impact on the poor of relief administration in the Carlton Incorporation, and Holbeck, during the 1840s, introducing an analysis of the workings, policies, and effects of an example of Chartist local governance.
- Graham Rawson
- 2019
- Robert Peel’s Second Government. An economic recession saw the Conservative Party win a sweeping majority in 1841, bringing Sir Robert Peel back into power for his second term as Prime Minister.
- First Peacetime Income Tax. Prior to 1842, income tax in the United Kingdom had been restricted to times of war, with the last income tax expiring after the Napoleonic Wars.
- Annexation of Sind. Part of modern Pakistan, Sind became a part of British India in 1843 through military action led by Major General Charles Napier.
- Daniel O’Connell Found Guilty of Conspiracy. Daniel O’Connell, also known as “The Liberator,” was a major figure in the fight for Irish Catholic emancipation for most of his life.
1840 14 January: A Chartist rising in the East End is largely suppressed by the police. 10 February: Queen Victoria marries Albert, Prince Consort in St James's Palace. 15 April King's College Hospital opens on Portugal Street. The West London Synagogue is established.
Agricultural labourer Christopher Ellis and spinster Mary Jackson were arrested for stopping a wagon loaded with sacks of wheat at Carlton on 14 July, the sacks being opened and eight bushels of wheat ‘scattered about the ground and spoiled’ for which both expressed their regret, presumably only to save a sentence.
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5 days ago · In 1840 the Prince Louis Napoleon (afterwards Emperor of the French) was living here, in the house of Lord Ripon, No. 1, in Carlton Gardens. This mansion accordingly became the centre of preparations for his famous descent upon Boulogne in the August of that year—an abortive attempt to revive the "Napoleonic Idea" in France, which led to the ...
