Portal:Chartism

Class D - World History Subclass A - History of Great Britain

Chartism

Class DA Main/Index related portals: United Kingdom. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category. Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, taking its name from the People's Charter of 1838. It was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world.— Excerpted from Chartism on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Works

• Chartism (1840) by Thomas Carlyle
• The Chartist Movement (1918) by Mark Hovell
• The Chartist's Complaint by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chartists as authors

• Thomas Carlyle
• William Lovett
• Joseph Rayner Stephens