1. Sections: Chartists, Chartist Tactics, Newspapers and Chartism, Artists and Writers, Parliamentary Reform Acts

2. Chartism was a working class movement, which emerged in 1836 and was most active between 1838 and 1848. The aim of the Chartists was to gain political …

3. These two indicators are usually plotted together for easy comparison, but chartists can also view the difference between these two indicators with the Aroon Oscillator

4. 1837, Chartism was a name to evoke the wildest hopes and worst fears, like Bolshevism in a later age.’ 1 Why did the movement fascinate its contemporaries and later writers alike? Firstly, the Chartists wanted to reform society by changing the way in which they were governed

5. He was the father of reform, and more than two generations before the coming of the Chartists he was fighting in and out of season for annual parliaments, universal suffrage and the ballot, demands which, to the ears of most of his astonished class, must have sounded as the Blasphemings of the restless pit.