A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly ...

Chartism was a movement for democratic rights, started in London in 1838 with the publication of the 'People's Charter'. The Charter demanded the reform of parliament. At that time very few people ...

An article by Past Tense on the first attempted general strike called by the Chartist movement for August 1839. It also compares the ideas of the strikes main proponent, William Benbow with other ...

At the end of the 1830s, only around one in five men had the right to vote in Wales and England. These were mainly wealthy or middle class landowners. The Chartists were a group of people who felt ...

JAMES WALSH previews the smorgasbord of talent and hilarity on show at the Brighton Fringe THE 19th-century Chartist movement, which predated the development of trade unions and the establishment of ...

The following is the first of two-part article. The second part will be posted November 5. On November 4, 1839, several thousand Chartists, carrying arms, marched into Newport, Wales. They surrounded ...

A tiny 165-year-old pamphlet identified by a University of Manchester academic as the only surviving copy of a Chartist hymn book has been transformed into a CD by a veteran protest singer. After ...

This is the second part of a two-part article. The first part was posted on November 4. There had been talk of a “sacred month,” effectively a general strike, throughout August 1839. There was some ...