Deference in Dowlais? Lady Charlotte Guest and the Chartists
A Public Lecture by Professor Angela V. John | Merthyr Tydfil Central Library, 15 Oct 2008 | Organised by THE MERTHYR CHARTIST FORUM and the Dic Penderyn Society
Commemorating the history and landscape of Chartism and Democracy
"Merthyr Tydvil, a place never to be forgotten when once seen. The blackest place above ground; I suppose, the Non-plus-ultra of Industrialism wholly mammonish, given up to shopkeeper supply-and-demand;—presided over by sooty Darkness physical and spiritual, by Beer, Methodism and the Devil, to a lamentable and supreme extent!" (Thomas Carlyle, 1854)
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