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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 MoreThe 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 MoreRobert Kemp Philp served on the Executive of the National Charter Association and co-authored the 1842 Chartist petition, but he
Read MoreThe National Charter Association must have issued membership cards in their tens, if not hundreds of thousands. At its peak
Read MoreAn energetic publisher of radical tracts whose newspapers flourished thanks to a judicious mix of politics and true crime stories,
Read MoreBorn on 25 January 1819 into a well-connected family, Ernest Jones spent much of his childhood in Berlin, returning to
Read MoreThe National Charter Association was the largest, longest lived and most central of the membership bodies to emerge from the
Read MoreThe National Charter Association is unique among a variety of Chartist and Chartist-leaning organisations for its longevity, its level of
Read MoreThe National Charter Association’s National Registration and Elections Committee (NCREC) aimed to co-ordinate the Chartist challenge at parliamentary elections, despite
Read MoreIn its early stages, the Chartist movement consisted entirely of local groups with no central co-ordination. Following the failure of
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