A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly ...

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IN ITV’S Victoria, the working-class movement Chartism rocks the country as the demand for political reform reached its peak in the 17th century. We explain what Chartism was, how long it lasted ...

Chartism is not proven by the fact that backtesting charts into the antedeluvian era before they were widely. It seems to confirm that when certain levels of pricing are breached upwards or ...

Then, let the bloodletting begin. Without a new Chartism, we remain a democratic joke. Resurgent Chartism is a sign of the iconic power of voting. When I was writing plays, often with political themes ...

Stephens famously declared Chartism to be a ‘knife and fork question’. He also made a pass at Bronterre O’Brien’s sister-in-law and was hounded out of the movement as a result, although he continued ...

This page looks at the use of the Metropolitan Police to manage the threat of Chartism outside the capital. It includes the memoirs of one officer despatched to arrest Joseph Rayner Stephens and names ...

The English revolution Nearly 180 years ago Thomas Carlyle’s Chartism asked the “condition of England question”. A pessimist and authoritarian, Carlyle also understood that when disconnected elites ...

Chartism was one of the world’s first major working-class movements. It got its name from the People’s Charter which demanded radical political reforms and one its leaders was the Irishman ...

Chartism was a national movement for political reform which began in the late 1830s, drawing most of its support from working class artisans such as shoe-makers and weavers. But, unlike previous ...