Before Chartism: Exclusion and Resistance

by Richard Brown

Chartism was the largest working-class political movement in modern British history. Its branches ranged from the Scottish Highlands to northern France and from Dublin to Colchester. Its meetings drew massive crowds: 300,000 at Kersal Moor and perhaps as many as half a million at Hartshead Moor in 1839. The National Petition in 1842 claimed 3.3 million signatures, a third of the adult population of Britain. This was a national mass movement of unprecedented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149220059X
• ISBN13: 9781492200598
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"