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George Julian Harney (17 February 1817 – 9 December 1897) was a British political activist, journalist, and Chartist leader. He was also associated with Marxism, socialism, and universal suffrage.
- 9 December 1897 (aged 80), United Kingdom
I was reminded of the little play, of Irving’s beautiful impersonation when, the other day, I went down to Richmond to see George Julian Harney. Here is a straggler—a straggler of 1848. Here is a man that carried intellectual gunpowder to the Lifeguards of the Chartist movement.
Harney persuaded both men to write articles for the Northern Star. Excited by the Continental Revolutions of 1848, George Julian Harney travelled to Paris in March, 1848 to meet members of the Provisional Government. Harney was now a socialist and he used the Northern Star to promote this philosophy.
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Aug 17, 2023 · George Julian Harney, 1817-1897. Chartist Ancestors. George Julian Harney was among the first and the last Chartists – a revolutionary whose political journey through Chartism linked the ultra radical heirs of Thomas Spence in the London Democratic Association to Marx, Engels and the exiles of 1848. He ended his long life an opponent of many ...
leader George Julian Harney9 fall into the latter category. In the 1840s and 1850s, in his capacity as editor of the official Chartist organ, the Northern Star, Harney had built up a powerful reputation as an advocate of transatlanticism. Harney was no mere theorist but a man of firm con
Jul 1, 2014 · George Julian Harney. Editorial. A new collection of writings brings to life a veteran of Chartism. Tue 1 Jul 2014 14.33 EDT. I ndividually, the 19th-century Chartists seem remote figures....
Apr 1, 2023 · Facebook. EditorMC. In 1839, the radical London Chartist George Julian Harney was out on bail awaiting trial for sedition. Two letters to his lawyer reveal his anxiety about the case and his desperate lack of cash. Mark Crail tells the story of Harney’s anxious summer.
