Presenting the leviathan petition of 1842
The 1842 ‘leviathan petition’ was bigger than any paper petition before or since. This page looks at the events of Monday 2 May 1842, when a huge crowd took it to Parliament
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The 1842 ‘leviathan petition’ was bigger than any paper petition before or since. This page looks at the events of Monday 2 May 1842, when a huge crowd took it to Parliament
Read MoreHand drawn and contemporary with the Chartist Meeting on 10 April 1848 on Kennington Common, this set of five cartoons
Read MoreChartists played a prominent role in the Eureka rebellion of 1854. This page looks at their involvement, and reproduces a
Read MoreChartism in Sheffield was slow to rouse and initally mild in character. As time went on, however, the mood grew
Read MoreMuch of the Chartist leadership found itself on trial after the events of the summer of 1842. This page sets
Read MoreThis page looks at the use of the Metropolitan Police to manage the threat of Chartism outside the capital. It
Read MoreThis is the story of the general strike wave of 1842 that swept industrial areas, combining protests at wage reductions
Read MoreOn 10 April 1848, thousands of Chartists assembled on Kennington Common in south London preparing to march on Parliament to
Read MoreThe following account of the events of 14 August 1848, when an armed Chartist “National Guard” shot dead a police
Read MoreThe Trafalgar Square riots of March 1848 were the first signs of a wave of radical unrest that swept London
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