Chartist

I shrank from him at first, when I heard him called a Chartist; for my dim notions of that class were, that they were a very wicked set of people, who wanted to kill all the soldiers and policemen and respectable people, and rob all the shops of their contents.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

_Plain Speaker_, were reprobates, if to be a Chartist is to be a reprobate: but none except the most one-sided bigots could deny them the praise of

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

In 1842, Richard got what for a young Victorian man was an excellent invitation: he was asked to travel around the world with Sir Thomas Phillips, a solicitor from Wales who had become a national hero due to putting down a "Chartist" riot.

September 2009 2009

In 1842, Richard got what for a young Victorian man was an excellent invitation: he was asked to travel around the world with Sir Thomas Phillips, a solicitor from Wales who had become a national hero due to putting down a "Chartist" riot.

The Very Mad Richard Dadd 2009

In 1842, Richard got what for a young Victorian man was an excellent invitation: he was asked to travel around the world with Sir Thomas Phillips, a solicitor from Wales who had become a national hero due to putting down a "Chartist" riot.

The Very Mad Richard Dadd 2009

"Chartist" movement in 1839, when universal suffrage, annual parliaments, and other radical changes were in vain demanded.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

I recollect hardly anything more, till I found myself thrust into the street by sneering footmen, and heard them call after me "Chartist" and "Communist" as I rushed along the pavement, careless where I went.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Using records from The National Archives, he presents allegations of cruelty to paupers, accounts of political and Chartist activities and much more.

History Podcasts | Edwardian Promenade 2009

John Barton became a Chartist, a Communist; all that is commonly called wild and visionary.

Mary Barton 2010

But it ought not be assumed that scientific progress always works against established authority: were it not for the then new railway to Birmingham, London police could not have been dispatched to the Midlands to break up a Chartist rally in 1839.

Causes of the riots: Old truths and new technologies | Editorial 2011