The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution |
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1848 Land Company activity agitation Barnsley became Benjamin Wilson Birmingham Bradford Branch Members Britain Bronterre centres century Chartist leaders Chartist movement Chartist period Convention Corn Laws cotton spinners crowd delegates demonstrations early employers England English Chartist Circular Ernest Jones factory Feargus O'Connor female Frost Government Halifax handloom weavers Harney historians imprisonment included industrial Ireland Irish John journals labour Lancashire Land Plan large number later leadership letter London Lovett Manchester manufacturing districts meeting middle-class National Charter Association Newcastle Newport Newport rising newspaper Northern Star Nottingham O'Brien O'Connell organisation paper Parliament petition Place Population police political Poor Law popular prison radical reform repeal reported shoemakers social society speakers speech strike tailors textile Thomas Cooper Thomas Frost took Tory town trade unions trial universal suffrage unstamped vote wages West Riding Whig William William Lovett women woolcombers workers working-class wrote Yorkshire