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Called to oversee the presentation of the second great Petition for the Charter to Parliament, the Chartist Convention of 1842 was bitterly divided over its attitude to middle-class reformers
Read MoreJames Watson was a radical publisher, free-thinker and member of the London Working Men’s Association
Read MoreHand drawn and contemporary with the Chartist Meeting on 10 April 1848 on Kennington Common, this set of five cartoons
Read MoreThe broadside shown here dates from August 1838, at the very start of the Chartist period. At the time it
Read MoreAn energetic publisher of radical tracts whose newspapers flourished thanks to a judicious mix of politics and true crime stories,
Read MoreBorn in Ireland and among the most prominent radical intellectuals of his age, James Bronterre O’Brien became known as the
Read MoreThe iconography of revolution is clear. Cannon, muskets, a barrel of gunpowder and tricolour flag form the backdrop to the
Read MoreGeorge Julian Harney was among the first and the last Chartists – a revolutionary whose political journey through Chartism linked
Read MoreJoseph Williams was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
Read MoreAlexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
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