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Samuel Bamford
Bamford, Samuel
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Bamford, Samuel (1788–1872). Lancashire radical and poet. Brought up a Wesleyan in Middleton near Manchester, he worked as a warehouse boy, farm labourer, on coal ships plying between Tyneside and London, and as a bookseller before setting up as a hand-loom weaver. Under the influence of William
Cobbett he became a radical, founding the Middleton
Hampden club in 1816 and being arrested for treason for advocating parliamentary reform in 1817. Acquitted of this charge, he was present at the
‘Peterloo’ massacre of 16 August 1819 as leader of the Middleton contingent and was sentenced to a year in Lincoln gaol for treason. This ended his radical career. He returned to hand-loom weaving and when this failed turned unsuccessfully to writing and public readings of his poetry. His autobiography was written in 1841–3 to justify his turbulent past and warn
chartists against the use of violence.
Edward Royle
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Ashbourne was a major hub for Victorian clockmakers Maxwell Craven has been sneaking a preview of next week's Bamford's fine-art sale in Derby and spotted some interesting and affordable items, including a clock featuring a portrait of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte - as he describes here.
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 7/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...a preview of next week's Bamford's fine-art sale in Derby...fascinating items on offer at Bamford's sale next week are three...Slack/Chesterfield", was Samuel Slack, who made clocks at...1750). He was apprenticed to Samuel Ashton, of Ashbourne, in...
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Voice and the Victorian Storyteller.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Mary Barton begins with a long preamble on a memoir by Samuel Bamford, who was, as Kreilkamp informs us, 'a veteran of...fiction of the time and such political writing as that by Bamford and Henry Hunt. However, one cannot help feeling that...
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WORDS: Classic
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/22/2000; ; 677 words
; ...that classism dates from as long ago as 1842. The quote is from Samuel Bamford, the radical weaver imprisoned after Peterloo. Class-ism...the curse of England and Englishmen, and of women also". But Bamford was before his time.
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David Amigoni, ed. Life Writing and Victorian Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Hewitt's opening essay returns him to the subject of Samuel Bamford and to the important question of the relationship between...autobiography. Exploring the post-autobiographical nature of Bamford's diaries, Hewitt's engaging essay is a reminder...
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Fools and knaves
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and out of Thompson's narrative pass, for example, the radical journalist William Cobbett and the weaver-poet Samuel Bamford. The sensible and the wild-eyed jostled. Owen was, at least to start with, a bit of both. Both Owen and Rapp...
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Live Working or Die fighting - How the Working Class Went Global
Magazine article from: Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...rooted in the very practical concerns of workplace politics and leavened by some nice touches of humour. Mason quotes Samuel Bamford, a Manchester weaver who attended the demonstration at St Peter's Field, proposing 'to an acquaintance that...
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The religion of feeling: Wesleyan Catholicism: a contradiction in terms?
Magazine article from: History Today; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...who had been a noted cow-leech and physician at Captain Fold in Lancashire. In 1818 Joseph told his companion, Samuel Bamford, that his father was a devout man of the Methodist persuasion, and a firm believer in witches and witchcraft; which...
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Self-consciousness: Memoirs.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 7/10/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...some life stories, like the huge, uncollected canon of working-class autobiographies of the nineteenth century (Samuel Bamford's Passages in the Life of a Radical and Alexander Somerville's The Autobiography of a Working Man are classics...
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A united people? Leaders and followers in a chartist locality, 1838-1848.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...between the two extremes of the heroic "organic intellectual" and the alienated worker-intellectual. To borrow Samuel Bamuel Bamford's characterization of his relationship to "the people," they were at once "one of them, and still apart...
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SPORTS RESULTS
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...2 Shaddon Wong, 19.18, 3 Samuel Rodger, 22.94, 4 Joshua Bamford 111m 1Coburn, 19.56, 2 Wong...43, 3 Coburn, 49.82, 4 Bamford 55.67, 333m 1 Wong 56.22, 2 Rodger 1.02.24, 3 Bamford, 1.03.64, 4 Coburn, 1...
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Samuel Bamford
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Bamford 1788-1872, English weaver, poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic...verses were popular among the Lancashire workers. Besides his poetry, Bamford is noted for Passages in the Life of a Radical (2 vol., 1840-43...
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Bamford, Samuel
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Bamford, Samuel (1788–1872). Lancashire radical and poet. Brought up a Wesleyan in Middleton near Manchester, he worked as a warehouse...
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Blanketeers, March of the
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the bridge at Stockport, where almost all were turned back. A handful reached Leek. The episode is described by Samuel Bamford in Passages in the Life of a Radical . J. A. Cannon
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