The Decline of the Chartist Movement

The Decline of the Chartist Movement

Author: Preston William Slosson

Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Explains Chartism and its six points as it began as a class movement through its peak in the early 1840's and eventual decline and downfall. Looks at the lasting effects it had on British laws and customs.


The Chartist Movement

The Chartist Movement

Author: Mark Hovell

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780719000881

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"Chartism was a Victorian era working class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. The term "Chartism" is the umbrella name for numerous loosely coordinated local groups, often named "Working Men's Association," articulating grievances in many cities from 1837. Its peak activity came in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It began among skilled artisans in small shops, such as shoemakers, printers, and tailors. The movement was more aggressive in areas with many distressed handloom workers, such as in Lancashire and the Midlands. It began as a petition movement which tried to mobilize "moral force", but soon attracted men who advocated strikes, General strikes and physical violence, such as Feargus O'Connor and known as "physical force" chartists."--Wikipedia


Decline of the Chartist Movement

Decline of the Chartist Movement

Author: Preston William Slosson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1967-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780714611044

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First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Chartist Revolution

Chartist Revolution

Author: Rob Sewell

Publisher: Wellred Books

Published:

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13:

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Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, they conducted a class war that at different times involved general strikes, battles with the state, mass demonstrations and even armed insurrection. They forged weapons, illegally drilled their forces, and armed themselves in preparation for seizing the reins of government. Such were the early revolutionary traditions of the British working class, deliberately buried beneath a mountain of falsehoods and distortions. This book sees Chartism as an essential part of our history from which we must draw the key lessons for today.


1848

1848

Author: John Saville

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-08-31

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521396561

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A study of the British state's confrontation with Chartism and Irish nationalism in 1848.


Chartism

Chartism

Author: Malcolm Chase

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1847791360

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Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.


The Dignity of Chartism

The Dignity of Chartism

Author: Dorothy Thompson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1781688516

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This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking research uncovering the role played by women in the movement. Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between down-to-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well as rank-and-file men and women, and more theoretical, polemical interventions. Of particular historical and political significance is the previously unpublished substantial essay co-authored by Dorothy and Edward Thompson, a superb piece of local historical research by two social historians then on the brink of notable careers.