First Chartist Convention, 1839: the General Convention of the Industrious Classes
After the best part of a year collecting signatures for their first great petition, the Chartists met to prepare its
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After the best part of a year collecting signatures for their first great petition, the Chartists met to prepare its
Read MoreA Chartist journalist, author and organiser, Thomas Martin Wheeler was at the heart of the Chartist movement throughout the 1840s, and went on to build one of Britain’s biggest mutual societies. This is his life story.
Read MoreRuffy Ridley was a well-known figure in the London Chartism of the 1840s. But his life was more colourful and more complex than it appeared at first glance. From Huguenot ancestry via business success and a sudden downfall and on to a new start in Australia, this is his life story.
Read MoreCalled 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 MoreThis page looks at a set of cartoons depicting the military arrangements put in place in preparation for the Chartist monster meeting of 10 April 1848.
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
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