Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters a

Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions thro

Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, the