vol 1 no 1, 22 Nov 1837; vol 1 no 8 [ns], 06 Jan 1838 - no 367, 23 Nov 1844
then: Northern Star and National Trades' Journal, The. no 368, 30 Nov 1844 - vol 15 no 749, 13 Mar 1852
then: Star and National Trades' Journal, The. no 750, 20 Mar 1852 - no 755, 01 May 1852
then: Star of Freedom, The; journal of political progress, trades' record, and co-operation chronicle. vol 1 no 1, 08 May 1852 - vol 1 no 14, 07 Aug 1852; no 1 [ns], 14 Aug 1852 - no 16 [ns], 27 Nov 1852//
Leeds,Yorkshire, West Riding (1837 - 1844)
London,Middlesex (30 Nov 1844 - 1850)
G.A. Fleming (1850 - 1820)
George Julian Harney (c. 1834 - c. 1855, assistant editor, then editor from Oct 1845 - May 1850; editor again 1852 - 1855)
William Hill (Rev.) 1837 - 1843)
Josiah Hobson (1843 - 1845)
Ernest Jones (assistant editor, 1847)
Gerald Massay (literary editor 1852+)
George Julian Harney (April 1852-Nov 1852)
Feargus O'Connor (founder 1837 - 1852)
George Julian Harney (1852)
William Hewitt (1846)
Abel Heywood
William Hill (Rev.)
Josiah Hobson
McGowan Hobson
George Julian Harney
Josiah Hobson (1837 - 1845?)
J. McGowan (1845)
William Aitken (1839)
J. Monk Ambrose
John Arnott
William Ashton (May 1845)
Thomas Attwood (Jan 1838)
Alexander Bell (1852)
Louis Blanc
Engels Brown (1840s)
Henry Candy
William Carpenter
John Cleave
W.H. Clifton
John Collins (Mar 1839)
William Courtenay (Sir) see John Thom Jun 1838)
Hugh Craig
Henry Cullingham
Robert Kellie Douglas
Christopher Doyle (Aug 1839)
Ebenezer Elliot
Friedrich Engels
Timothy Falvey
John Fergusson
Micheal Forester
John Fraser
T. Frost
Ph. Gigot
W.H. Gradner
Charles Jameson Grant
Mary Howitt
Ernest Jones
Samuel M. Kydd (1852)
Richard Lee (London correspondent, 1839 - 1841)
W.J. Linton (1852)
John Lowery (Emma Miles May 1843)
Karl Marx
Mazzini Marx
Giuseppe Mazzini
Edward P. Mead
Charles Hodgson Neesom (Dec 1839)
Elizabeth Neesom (May 1839)
Richard Oastler (1842)
James Bronterre O'Brien
Feargus O'Connor
Thomas Price
W. Rider
George Ross
Henry Ross
Arnold Ruge
D. Schofield
Percy Bysshe Shelley
T.B. Smith
John Smithson
Joseph Stephens (Rev.) Jun 1838)
James Syme
John Taylor
John Thom (pseud. Sir William Courtenay Jun 1838)
George Twedel
Keats Twedel
T. Watson Twedel
Henry Vincent
J.B. Walker
W.L. Warren
Wemyss (Col.) 1839)
John West (Nov 1842)
Thomas Martin Wheeler (1840 - 1850)
George White
James Whittle
M. Wilkinson
J.F. Woods
Titus Brooke
John Cleave (London agent)
James Guest (Birmingham agent)
Abel Heywood (Manchester agent)
William Hill
James Ibbotson
Arthur O'Connor
Feargus O'Connor (owner)
Christopher Tinker
Size:
59cm, 8pp (1839); 256pp (1852)
Price:
3 1/2d (1839); 4½d st (1839, 1852); 5s/q (Jan 1838); 5s6d/q; price increased to 6½d; 6d (1846); 5d (1847, Mar 1852); 4½d (May 1852)
Circulation:
10,450/w (1837); 35,000-60,000/no (1838 - 1839); 80,000/w (1839); 10,000/w (1838); 60,000 (a two week period in 1839); 42,000 (Apr 1839 - Jun 1839); 30,000?-50,000+ (1839); 18,000 (paid subscribers 1841); 13,580 (1841); 12,500 (1842); 9,350 (1843); 7,000 (1844); 6,000 (paid subscribers 1846); 12,500 (1847); 7,000, 21,000 (1848); 5,000/w (1848-1850); 1,200 (1852)
Frequency:
weekly (Sat 1839-1846+; 1852)
Issued by:
Chartist Organisation of Fergus O'Connor, The
review of the week, United States, Italy, Switzerland, China, India, questions and answers, notices to correspondents, democratic movements, co-operation, our pen and ink portrait gallery, news from the gold diggings, public amusements, science and art, statistics of the week, markets, letters for working men, industrial association, the political aspect (1852); editorials, articles, and letters condemning the New Poor Law (1830s); reports of anti-Poor Law meetings, chartist/local and general intelligence, local markets, to readers and correspondents, medical advise, reviews, poetry, bankrupts, astrology, correspondence, news, advertisements, parliament report, national association of united trades, forthcoming meetings, law and the land, national land company, crime, court cases
Orientation:
Chartist (1837, 1847); Radical; radical reform; pro-universal suffrage, pro-free trade, voluntary (1846); working-class radical
Merges:
superseded The Northern Star and The Friend of the People (q.v.); merged with Friend of the People (q.v.) under new name Star of Freedom
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Location:
complete runs:
CA/U-1 A; partial runs:
LO/N38 A nos 8-16 [ns] (06 Jan 1838-27 Nov 1852),
LO/U-1 G (Goldsmith Collection) 5:212-6:313, nos 1-16 (Dec 1841-Nov 1843, 1852
mic);
N.America: see
Fulton. The full text is available from
CENGAGE, from
BNA and from
NCSE