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Dave Steele

@drdavesteele.bsky.social
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HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed. & Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Now at Govan memorial to Mary Barbour of early 20th century Red Clydeside movement and Peace Crusade.[
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m on Glasgow Green, site of 1838 launch of People’s Charter by Rev. Arthur Wade. It’s a massive public space which could easily have accommodated the reported crowd of 100,000
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m on Glasgow Green, site of the 1838 launch of the People’s Charter by Rev. Arthur Wade . This is a massive public space which could easily have accomdated the reported 100,000 crowd
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
… even the Glasgow rain couldn’t dampen the tour conducted by the excellent @kamack.bsky.social Katherine Mackinnon of Glasgow Radical History Tours @historylabplus.bsky.social
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We rounded off the day with a walk through Glasgow’s radical past featuring, among others, Suffragette direct action , 70s radical poets, student occupations , Jimmy Reid’s Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in and the indomitable Teacher/freedom fighter, Margaret Skinnider, pictured here
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Enjoying Dr Ewan Gibbs’s talk about his book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class @ewangibbs.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With Amelia Clegg at @historylabplus.bsky.social Network Scotland
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
She does a good line in world religious leaders. The last time I saw her she was with the Dalai Lama
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
. . . unfortunately it’s 1 Jan 2027. C’est la vie!
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
At last - Routledge have set a publication date for my book on their website:
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social Mike Reeves giving his paper on smoking
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Back at Lancaster University to give my Social History Society Conference paper on New Palace Yard 54 years after coming here for an interview and failing to get a place.
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just got this Henry Hunt medal celebrating his election as MP for Preston, Dec. 24 1830.
Henry Hunt medal celebrating his election as MP for Preston, Dec. 24 1830.
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Submitted my edited book manuscript to the publishers. Pheww! Now the long wait begins…
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thanks Katrina. I’m in good company in this collection, available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I’ve never been to Billing Aquadrome
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Apparently it’s 100 years since the introduction of the Photobooth. In a bizarre twist it was 50 years ago that I took this Photobooth selfie complete with roll up and fag-burn on my Rupert-the-bear scarf. What was I thinking?
Photobooth selfie of Dave Steele
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Look what just arrived! @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
There’s also a gallery of my work on Hull Docks on Hull Maritime Museum’s website
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
These remind me of a series of photos I took of Hull in 1975 machelp.org.uk/hull/
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
And this medal marking her death
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I recently bought this lovely jug
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Looking forward to giving my talk this Saturday at Warwick Words History Festival on 'Rev Arthur Wade: Radical Vicar of Warwick' Sat. 4 October 4pm, Unitarian Chapel, Warwick. I will discuss Wades advocacy of workers’ rights. A few tickets left: www.warwickwords.co.uk/index.php/al...
Dr Dave SteeleWarwick Words History Festival
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
doing my bit
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
One great thing about speaking at Tolpuddle is you get expenses in the form of Martyrs money which you can spend in the bar
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Looking forward to giving my talk on ‘The Reputational Power of the Crowd’ at Tolpuddle Radical History School tomorrow Friday
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
It takes 3hrs to walk from Dudley to Birmingham, but why am I talking about that at a Social History Conference? Come along on Weds and find out. #SHSConf2025
Map of walking distance Dudley to Birmingham Body of the crowd
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Looking forward to presenting at this Methodologies session tomorrow… Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB Thur 5 June 5pm Mary Fraser - analysing journals. Rob O'Toole - digital technology Dave Steele - crowd density & text mining . All welcome: bit.ly/pdc-meth2
Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB
Online Meeting: Thursday June 5 at 5pm
Methodologies Series 	‘POST-DOC’

Mary Fraser from the University of Glasgow on analysing occupational journals.
Rob O'Toole of the University of Warwick will share his enthusiasm for how digital technology can assist Arts Faculty researchers.
Dave Steele of the University of Warwick on using Digital Mapping to estimate potential crowd densities and site capacity and text mining Newspaper Archives to estimate news penetration.

All welcome (not restricted to post-docs). Tickets: https://bit.ly/pdc-meth2
Email: PostDocClub@gmail.com
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Just been interviewed by Matt Chorley about protest in and around Parliament for his Politics show on Radio 5 Live (for later broadcast).
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I'm chuffed to have got these commemorative jugs at auction: 1) 1820 Death of Queen Caroline, estranged wife of King George IV 2) 1816 marriage of their daughter Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Belgium
commemorative jugs:
 
1) 1820 Death of Queen Caroline, estranged wife of King George IV; 

2) 1816 marriage of their daughter Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Belgium  commemorative jugs:
 
1) 1820 Death of Queen Caroline, estranged wife of King George IV; 

2) 1816 marriage of their daughter Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Belgium
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Final call for today's panel discussion: "THE INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN" which probes how Independent Historians maintain academic excellence and rigour without institutional affiliation. 5pm GMT today Dec 2 on Zoom. Registration: www.bit.ly/p-d-c-1
panel discussion: "THE INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Vic Clarke and Shirley Chase at the unveiling of the Northern Star Blue Plaque
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Looking forward to hosting Monday's panel discussion: THE INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN This session asks Independent Historians Melanie Backe-Hansen, Mark Crail, John Sanders & John Townley to share insights into their inspirations and methods of working. More: www.bit.ly/p-d-c-1
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Can't believe I just got this Henry Hunt jug! Thanks for the heads up @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Dave Steele holding Henry Hunt jugDave Steele holding Henry Hunt jug
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
go.bsky.app/ExkEfQq
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Looking forward to giving my talk on 'The Political Prisoners of Warwick Gaol' at Warwick Words History Festival 10.30 am this Sat Oct 12. I'll discuss Chartists John Collins & William Lovett's 1839 incarceration and the campaign to improve their appalling prison conditions Tickets: bit.ly/ww-d
Chartists John Collins & William Lovett
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Fascinating talk in Fishguard last night by Hefin Wyn introducing his book about Twm Carnabwth an early leader of the Rebecca Riots
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
I really enjoyed yesterday’s Chartism Day despite having to leave early. By coincidence I’ve just had this article on the Charter published on the back page of ‘Modern History Review’. . . @hoddermagazines
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
The police broke up that year’s Windsor Festival but the sprit of the free festival movement lived on in a network of free festivals inc. Stonehenge.
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
UBI Dwyer
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
50 years ago this weekend, a free festival was held in Windsor Great Park. I was commissioned to design and print this poster:
Poster for Windsor Free Festival August 1974
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
This is great. I was lucky enough to nab one which marked his imprisonment the previous year. Bust of Spence on front with legend: “T Spence - A State Prisoner in 1794” & Britannia on reverse with legend: “Rouse Britannia!” left hand holding spear from which a cap of Liberty falls to the ground.
Thomas Spence Farthing token 1794
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Also on the military response surrounding April 10, I found this letter from Wellington to Prince Albert, presumably in response to the latter’s concerns for the security of heavy artillery but politely asking him to keep his nose out of government business:
Wellington to Prince AlbertWellington to Prince Albert
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Warwick History ‘Post-Doc’ club Looking forward to hosting tonight’s launch meeting of Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB. Discussion group of former Warwick History Research Students. Current staff and students welcome. Join us on zoom 24 Jan 5pm: www.bit.ly/POST-DOC-CLUB Email: PostDocClub@gmail.com
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