Portal:Chartism
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.
Works
[edit]- Chartism (1840) by Thomas Carlyle
- The Chartist Movement (1918) by Mark Hovell
- The Chartist's Complaint by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chartists as authors
[edit]Works about Chartism
[edit]- "Chartism," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)