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Book SynopsisNo British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research. -- .
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 May-September 1838: ‘I have in my hand a charter – the people’s charter’
Chartist lives: Abram and Elizabeth Hanson
2 October-December 1838: ‘The people are up’
Chartist lives: Patrick Brewster
3 January-July 1839: ‘The People’s Parliament’
Chartist lives: Thomas Powel
4 July-November 1839: ‘Extreme excitement and apprehension’
Chartist lives: John Watkins
5 November 1839-January 1840: After Newport
Chartist lives: Samuel Holberry
6 February 1840-December 1841: ‘The Charter and nothing less’
Chartist lives: Elizabeth Neesom
7 1842: ‘Toasting muffins at a volcano’
Chartist lives: Richard Pilling
8 1843-1846: Doldrums Years
Chartist lives: Ann Dawson
9 July-1846-April 1848: ‘A time to make men politicians’
Chartist lives: William Cuffay
10 April 1848-1852: ‘Decent revolutionaries’?
11 Chartist Lives: ‘Ever present to the progressive mind’
Money, prices and wages: a note
A note on sources and further reading
Index
