Judy Meewezen

British wordsmith, part-time Austrian, optimist. Loves landscapes, arts, long 18c. Media veteran, wrote Turtle Soup for the King, The Cato St Chronicles.

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

Rarely, since 1820, has an attempt to get rid of the cabinet seemed more pertinent. Finally available to order in UK bookshops...

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

Time to visit the Isabella Foundation in Richmond Park. Till I found out it was first planted by Lord Sidmouth the oppressive Home Secretary at the time of #Peterloo and #CatoStreet. Still gorgeous.

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

SUDAN. For the last six months, hundreds of young people have protested peacefully and stopped the military from grabbing power. Over half are girls. Compare this with the pain and noise of the rhetoric elsewhere. And who knows?

[Gladstone's Library @gladlib]

Are you free on Tuesday evening? Prof Robert Poole, co-author of the New Internationalist, a graphic novel about the Peterloo massacre (see picture), will discuss the life and writings of Samuel Bamford, a working-class writer.
Details and tickets here https://t.co/TxfMS9g8qq

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

@ArtyBagger My Cousin in Wolverhampton had a budgie who made everyone laugh hysterically by saying (instead of Blue Leader) Come on, Loo Bleeder. Does that count?

[Peterloo Memorial Campaign @PeterlooMemoria]

Robert Poole, author of Peterloo: The English Uprising, is giving a talk on "Writing and Radicalism: Samuel Bamford and the Victorian Literary Scene" at @gladlib on the evening of April 5 - online and in-person tickets available at https://t.co/TYcStutb7p

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

@PeterlooMemoria @gladlib Looking forward to this with great expectations!!

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

Underbart! Tack.. Vi har ingen tranor har i London men jag har sett ein hager igar...ha en bra dag alltihop!

[Jens Gustafsson @jensgustafssons]

Igår eftermiddag fick jag se de första tranorna för i år i mina trakter. Lika roligt varje år när man först får höra dem, och sedan lyckas få en bild, om än inte högkvalitativ, men upplevelsen var högkvalitativ kan jag lova.

[Peterloo Memorial Campaign @PeterlooMemoria]

Today is the 234th birthday of Samuel Bamford, weaver and Radical, who was imprisoned after leading the Middleton march to Peterloo in 1819. Bamford wrote an autobiography, Passages in the Life of a Radical, and many poems, including Song of the Slaughter and The Lancashire Hymn.

[ManchesterHist @McrHistory]

Photo - Sacha Lehrfreund

During the demolition of the Crescents in Hulme, Manchester, early 1990s.

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

Interestingly,Londonderry,aka Castlereagh, implicated in the quashing of the 1798 Rebellion, didn't understand why people kept breaking his windows. He took his own life later this year.

[Reporting the news from 1823 @Live1819]

Sources at Westminster suggest that the leader of the Commons, Lord Londonderry will introduce a bill tomorrow to give the authorities in Dublin new powers to crack down on violence by agrarian secret societies. This may include night-time curfews and fresh powers of detention.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Surprisingly @Jacob_Rees_Mogg was talking out of a hole in the back of his head. Again

[CREA Paris Nanterre @CreaNanterre]

🗓 Le 10 février à 17h, l'Observatoire de l'aire britannique reçoit Robert Poole pour une conférence intitulée "Female Reformers at Peterloo, 1819" ➡️ https://t.co/vZEbZsjqRW

[Judy Meewezen @JudyMWrites]

@MrHall94 Read up on the Cato Street Conspiracy in London, Feb 2020, an important consequence of Peterloo. (One of the hanged conspirators is a butcher from Portsea) My book Turtle Soup for the King,2021 gives context and story in a digestible way.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

Going to be planning a unit on Peterloo, rise of working class activism, any of the events around that period Tolpuddle Martyrs etc.

Anyone have any reading received recommendations at all as I'm a complete novice in that area?

Appreciate some retweets!

[Romance, Revolution & Reform @RRRJournal]

It's time for our third roundtable of the day on radical working-class poetry with Robert Poole, Alison Morgan and @OskarCoxJensen, chaired by @JohnNBlackmore! #RadicalRoundtables

[Romance, Revolution & Reform @RRRJournal]

Robert Poole gives us a taste of the work of Sam Bamford, Lancashire radical, reformer, poet and pioneer of dialect writing in the early 1820s. He points out the inspiration that Robert Burns provided to many regional writers at the time.

[Reporting the news from 1823 @Live1819]

Viscount Sidmouth has been widely reviled by radicals and progressive Whigs in particular. He was responsible for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817, claiming there was a plot to overthrow the government. After the Peterloo massacre in 1819, he again cracked down on dissent.

[Peterloo Graphic Novel @PeterlooBook]

The Hunga Tonga volcano really reminds me of 1815 Mount Tambora eruption, so huge it changed the climate, caused the drastic food shortages of 'The Year Without a Summer', and in a sense therefore helped instigate Peterloo itself.
Here it is illustrated in the graphic novel...