'The Ministers and their cronies off to Botany Bay, and the Dorcester men returning'. Politicians in tears on a boat, going away from the shore; free Dorchester Unionists on another boat, getting closer to the shore. At the bow is a flag reading 'FOR BOTANY BAY'. The two oarsmen guide the boat towards a ship from which is returning another boat, containing two oarsmen and the six Tolpuddle Martyrs. Among the politicians are Lord Chancellor Brougham, with two money-bags marked 'PENNY' and 'MAGAZINE', and holding a rolled-up paper reading 'CHEAP LAW'. Brougham is being comforted by Lord Melbourne. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Viscount Althorp, has a sack bearing the word 'BUDGET'. The Duke of Wellington declaims 'Never mind M-lb-n, we no doubt can get places among the Cannibals at Bottomhouse Bay. An Irishman and a Scotsman look on, while John Bull addresses the politicians. Image taken from The Political drama. [A series of caricatures.] Originally published/produced in [London] : Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market, [1834-1835]. Image taken from The Political drama. [A series of caricatures.] Held and digitised by the British Library. (CC0 1.0) See more below, March 18, 1834.
Socialistisk Biblioteks Tidslinje med links til begivenheder og personer i 1834.
Seks landarbejdere fra Tolpuddle i Dorset, England, idømmes maksimumsstraf på 7 års deportation til Australien af en jury bestående af bønder, for stiftelse af den tidlige “fagforening”, Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.
De sejrrige protester førte til løsladelser få år efter, og blev et samlingspunkt for den tidlige arbejderbevægelse – bl.a. med massedemonstration med 100.000, og er siden blevet fejret med årlig festival/march i juli måned i landsbyen, arrangeret af det britiske LO, TUC.
Tolpuddle and Swing: The flea and the elephant (Bristol Radical History Group, May 2009)
Meeting of the trade unionists in Copenhagen Fields, April 21, 1834, for the purpose of carrying a petition to the King for a remission of the sentence passed on the Dorchester labourers. Black and white negative on glass plate negative. Photo: Percy Benzie Abery (1876–1948), photographer. (CC0 1.0). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Tolpuddle Martyrs Mural. Artist: Dave Bangs, 1984. Depicting the 1834 march to Westminster to petition for the pardon of the six Dorset farm labourers who were ‘guilty’ of, effectively, joining a trade union. Exterior wall in Edward Square, Copenhagen Street, London Borough of Islington. Photo by George Rex in July 2013. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Source: flickr.com.
24. marts 1834
Portrait of William Morris, aged 53. First published 1899 (photo c. 1887) in J. W. Mackail The Life of William Morris in two volumes, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. Photo: Frederick Hollyer (1838–1933). Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Den engelske socialist, designer og digter William Morris fødes i London (dør 3. oktober 1896 i Kelmscott House, Oxfordshire).
The William Morris Society (site). “Founded in 1971, the William Morris Society in the United States is a group of scholars and enthusiasts brought together in fellowship by our shared interest in the life and works of the nineteenth-century writer, designer, and political thinker William Morris.”
William Morris – Literary Works: A Selected List (The Victorian Web): Literary Works, Online Texts of Morris’ Literary Works and Visual Arts.
Alfabet designet af William Morris.
Detail of Art Needlework embroidery “Artichoke” in wool on linen. Date: 1890. Design: William Morris (1834–1896) Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The socialism of William Morris brought ecology and class struggle together. By Matthew Beaumont (Jacobin, Oktober 8, 2023). “William Morris condemned the dehumanizing impact of industrial capitalism on workers and raised an early alarm about the threat it posed to the natural world. His vision of ecological socialism is a vital resource for today’s political movements.”
The socialist imagination of William Morris. By Matthew Beaumont (Jacobin, April 20, 2023). “William Morris wasn’t just a brilliant artist and designer; he was also a committed socialist who raged against the injustices of capitalism and imperialism. From his political essays to his utopian novel News from Nowhere, Morris left us with a vital legacy.”
William Morris’s anti-imperialism (Verso, Blog, 5 November 2020). “William Morris is today remembered mainly for his designs. But, during his life he was one a prolific political journalist and socialist activist. Here, Peter Halton argues for the enduring relevance of his anti-imperialist writings.”
How William Morris became a socialist. By Benjamin Schacht (Jacobin, December 4, 2020). Review of How I Became a Socialist by William Morris, edited by Owen Holland (Verso Books, 2020, 224 p.). “The critique of capitalism was central to William Morris’s vision of an arts and crafts movement in the Victorian era. Against the alienation and exploitation of a rapacious industrialism, he advocated for a conception of art capable of restoring creativity to everyday life.”
William Morris: father of socialist ecology. By Gabriel Polley (Counterfire, September 25, 2019). “William Morris is one of the greatest environmentalists of the socialist tradition and his work becomes more relevant by the day.”
Special issue on William Morris (Socialist Studies, Vol.13, No.1, Spring 2018, 81 p.). “For those who were influenced by Morris in the past, our hope is that this reengages you with his radical contributions in the context of contemporary capitalist society – perhaps one that in many ways has not changed significantly from Morris’ own time. For those who are new to Morris, our hope is that this encourages you to find out more and draw new insights from historical radicalism.”
William Morris’s romantic revolutionary ideal. By John Bellamy Foster (Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol.22, No.2, 2017, p.17-35; online at Johnbellamyfoster.org). “William Morris’s celebrated utopian romance News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest (1890) constituted his most singular attempt to present a revolutionary ideal aimed at inspiring a ‘movement towards Socialism’ in his day.”
Art for the people. By Jim Horton (Socialism Today, Issue 184, December/January 2014/15). Review of Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his legacy, 1860-1960, National Portrait Gallery: “It provides a good introduction to the various strands of William Morris’s work and life, touching on his ideology and political activities.”
William Morris’s socialism. By Siobhan Brown (Socialist Review, Issue 375, December 2012). “For many, William Morris is best known as a designer and artist – his patterns turned into wallpapers, his drawings into beautiful yet functional furniture. But Morris was much more than just a craftsman: he was a poet, storyteller and socialist. ”
Debunking the ‘Menshevik myth’: William Morris and revolutionary politics. By Graham Milner (Links: Journal of Socialist Renewal, May 2010). “This essay will look at the practice and theory of Morris as a Marxist, by examining briefly the genesis of his world outlook, his involvement as a political activist in the nascent socialist movement of the 1880s and 1890s in Britain, and by attempting to analyse the character of his contribution to Marxist and socialist theory.”
William Morris: Victorian artist and revolutionary. By Hassan Mahamdallie (Socialist Worker, Issue 2183, 9 January 2010). “Famous for his art, William Morris’s commitment to socialism and struggle is less well known.”
Crossing the ‘river of fire’: the socialism of William Morris (pdf). (The Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol.18, No.3, Winter 2009, p.93-95). Ruth Kinna reviews Hassan Mahamdallie’s book (Redwords, 2008, 133 p.): “His obvious enthusiasm for Morris and his knowledge of the period, its literature and politics also make the book highly readable. Although the language of class struggle demands a familiarity with socialist
thought which newcomers to Morris studies might lack, the picture of Morris’s socialism which Mahamdallie paints is highly appealing.” Scroll down.
A Marxist for our time: William Morris. By Paul Hampton (Workers Liberty, 16 October 2008). “The Morris that has most contemporary relevance is the man who shortly before his 50th birthday became an active revolutionary socialist and remained so to the end of his tumultuous life. Morris’s Marxism and his prescient views on socialist ecology are the subjects of this appreciation.”
William Morris and revolutionary Marxism: crossing the ‘river of fire’. By Hassan Mahamdallie (International Socialism, Issue 71, June 1996, p.57-98). “Morris has often been caricatured as a dreamer, a utopian who had little to say about how this new society was to come about. A brief look at his work from 1884 onwards rebuts that view entirely. Central to Morris’s understanding of socialism was the cast iron belief in revolutionary organisation.”
Socialist by design. By Chris Nineham (Socialist Review, Issue 196, April 1996; online at Internet Archive). “William Morris, who died 100 years ago, was an artist, a poet, a lecturer and a pamphleteer. But he was also a Marxist, a revolutionary socialist and a political agitator.”
Morris, Bax and Babeuf. By Ian H. Birchall (The Morris Society Journal 1996; on Marxists Internet Archive). “A century separates Morris’s death from Babeuf’s ‘Conspiracy of the Equals’, arguably the first revolutionary socialist organisation in history. But there is more than a coincidence of dates linking two great pioneers of socialist thought and practice; there is an interesting and, as far as I know, little discussed connection between the two men.”
William Morris. By E.P. Thompson (Marxists Internet Archive). A lecture to the Williams Morris Society, 1959. First published in Persons and Polemics, Historical Essays by E.P. Thompson (Merlin Press, 1994, p.66-76). “But Morris was one of our greatest men, because he was a great revolutionary, a profoundly cultured and humane revolutionary, but not the less a revolutionary for this reason. Moreover, he was a man working for practical revolution.”
William Morris and the moral issues today. By E.P. Thompson (Arena, Vol.2, No.8, June-July 1951). A speech at a conference organised by the National Cultural Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain in London on 29 April 1951.
William Morris (March 24, 1834–October 3, 1896). By Hal Draper (Socialist Appeal, Vol.3, No.49, 11 July 1939). “Yet, at the height of his career, Morris astonished his friends and ‘the public’ by casting his lot with a small obscure political group and throwing his enormous energies, as well as his wealth and reputation, into their work. This group was the pioneer organization of the British Marxists, the Social Democratic Federation.”
“William Morris”. By Karl Kautsky (1896). With intro by Rida Vaquas (Prometeus, Autumn 2020). “While the death of William Morris signified a deep personal loss, Kautsky concerned himself with demonstrating the depth of the political loss. … take stock of the growth of the English socialist movement … it presents an interesting perspective into how Kautsky understood advances of the socialist movement to happen and weaknesses in that view.”
Literature:
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. By E. P. Thompson. Foreword by Peter Linebaugh (Merlin Press, 2011, 825 p.; 1955-edition online at Libcom.org). Reviews: Book of a lifetime: William Morris: Romantic to …. By Sheila Rowbotham (Independent, 7 May 2010). William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, part 1+2. By Andrea Gibbon (Blog: Books, Labour, Strugle & Movement, October 11, 2014; online at Internet Archive). With Thompson, Morris et al quotations.
23. december 1834
Den engelske demograf og økonom Robert Malthus dør i Heleybury, Herford. (Født 13. februar 1766, se denne)
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