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First Chartist petition, 1839

The first Chartist petition had more than 1,280,000 names and was three miles long. This page recounts the story of

One of the facts everyone knows about the Chartists is that they presented three petitions to Parliament. But they didn’t.

By November 1848, with many of its leading activists in prison, the National Charter Association was in such a state

With Ernest Jones now at its head, the National Charter Association managed a brief flicker of revival in membership during

Chartism is defined by the three great petitions to Parliament of 1839, 1842 and 1848. What is often overlooked is