Chartism

A new history

By: Malcolm Chase

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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. -- .

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"This is just what the subject has needed: a strong intertwined narrative and analysis, pulling out new themes as well as old and providing the human touch through brief biographies that link into and enhance the overall argument. A very important book combining scholarship with readability."--John Walton, University of Central Lancashire

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
May-September 1838: 'I hold in my hand a charter - the people's charter'	p. 1
Chartist lives: Abram and Elizabeth Hanson	p. 22
October-December 1838: "The people are up'	p. 30
Chartist lives: Patrick Brewster	p. 49
January-July 1839: "The People's Parliament'	p. 57
Chartist lives: Thomas Powell	p. 87
July-November 1839: 'Extreme excitement and apprehension'	p. 95
Chartist lives: John Watkins	p. 117
November 1839-January 1840: After Newport	p. 126
Chartist lives: Samuel Holberry	p. 152
February 1840-December 1841: 'The Charter and nothing less'	p. 158
Chartist lives: Elizabeth Neesom	p. 184
1842: 'Toasting muffins at a volcano'	p. 192
Chartist lives: Richard Pilling	p. 229
1843-46: Doldrums years	p. 236
Chartist lives: Ann Dawson	p. 261
July 1846-April 1848: 'A time to make men politicians'	p. 271
Chartist lives: William Cuffay	p. 303
April 1848-1852: 'Decent revolutionaries'?	p. 312
Chartist lives: 'Ever present to the progressive mind'	p. 341
Notes to the text	p. 361
Money, prices and wages: a note	p. 403
A note on sources and further reading	p. 404
Index	p. 407
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