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Pic-nics and politics: a grand day out as Chartists take to the Thames by paddle steamer, 1850

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Christian Chartists – doing God’s work with the devil’s tools

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  • organisations and newspapers

Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Association

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  • organisations and newspapers

National Charter League

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Chartism and the Anti Corn Law League

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  • organisations and newspapers

Joseph Sturge and the Complete Suffrage Union

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National Charter Association leaders 1840 – 1858

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Teetotal Chartism

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Knowledge Chartism: William Lovett, the New Move and the National Association

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William Paul Dowling, 1824-1877
Artist, Irish Confederate and London Chartist

The Evening Star
Feargus O’Connor’s Chartist evening newspaper

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The People’s Charter
The pamphlet that started it all

Northern Star
The paper that made Chartism

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