Chartist Movement
Great Britain 1838-1848
Synopsis
Chartism was a mass movement that emerged in the political disappointments and economic difficulties of the later 1830s and was active until 1848. Th...
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The "People's Charter," drafted in 1838 by William Lovett and Francis Place was at the heart of a radical campaign for parliamentary reform of the inequity remaining after the Reform Act of 1832. The ...
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