The Homestead and the Garden Plot: Cultural Pressures on Land Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the USA

Back to the Future? The Potters' Emigration Society and the Historians

“…77 A quarter of a century later, the American historian Jamie L. Bronstein reinvestigated the relationship between George Henry and William Evans as part of a wider inquiry into working-class land reform in Britain and the United States, and, specifically, the 'amazing confluence of ideas and organizational strategies' between the National Reform Association, O'Connor's Chartist Land Company and the Potters' Emigration Society. 78 For the first time, the potters' scheme was appraised in the context of a transatlantic reform movement which, notwithstanding its personal and intellectual schisms, was united in its aim of delivering working families from the thraldom of industrial labour through the utilization of land. 79 Of the three organizations, Bronstein judged the leadership of the Potters' Emigration Society to be the 'most centralized', with Evans 'protective and proprietorial' of pottery workers.…”

The Chartist Legacy in the British World: Evidence from New Zealand's Southern Settlements, 1840s−1870s

“…Whilst many within the British Chartist movement had rejected emigration as a solution to the problems of the working class, some Chartists did emigrate. Admittedly, some of those who journeyed to the southern seas put their Chartist credentials to one side on arrival in the new world. A notable example was the Sunderland Chartist poet, George Binns.…”