Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions thro

The Chartists is a major contribution to our understanding not just of Chartism but of the whole experience of working-class people in mid-nineteenth century Br

Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters a

This book, the first full-length study of metropolitan Chartism, provides extensive new material for the 1840s and establishes the regional and national importa