Chartist petitions in full
One of the facts everyone knows about the Chartists is that they presented three petitions to Parliament. But they didn’t.
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Fourth national petition 1849
By November 1848, with many of its leading activists in prison, the National Charter Association was in such a state
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With Ernest Jones now at its head, the National Charter Association managed a brief flicker of revival in membership during
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Chartism is defined by the three great petitions to Parliament of 1839, 1842 and 1848. What is often overlooked is
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