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Chartist Ancestors 
What did your family to in the revolution?
Millions signed the three great Chartist petitions of 1839 to 1848. Thousands were active in those years in the campaign to win the vote, secret ballots, and other democratic rights that we now take for granted.
Chartist Ancestors lists many of those who risked their freedom, and sometimes their lives, because of their participation in the Chartist cause. The names included on the site are drawn from newspapers, court records and books of the time, from later histories and other sources.
I would like to thank the many historians, researchers and the descendents of those associated with Chartism who have helped with this site since it was launched in 2003.
Mark Crail, Editor
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Names taken from Chartism: A New History
This page lists nearly 500 people named in Chartism: A New History. The list includes well known Chartist leaders and relatively obscure supporters of the Chartist movement, politicians and others whose lives either shaped or were in some way shaped by Chartism.
The list is reproduced with the kind permission of Dr Malcolm Chase, Reader in Labour History and author of Chartism: A New History.
Order Chartism: A New History
| Adams, William 264, 401n4 |
| Aitken, William 366n20 |
| Allen, James 136 |
| Allen, William 356 |
| Allsop, Thomas 299, 329, 384n54, 391n9, 394n84 |
| Archibald Alison, Sir 220, 295-6 |
| Anderson, John 345 |
| Ardill, John 250 |
| Arnold, Richard 112 |
| Arnott, John 259 |
| Arran, James 134-5, 266 |
| Ashton, William 33, 107, 128, 131-2, 136, 255 |
| Attwood, Thomas 1-6, 18, 24, 33, 48, 61, 73, 76, 69, 84, 172, 196, 230 |
| Baines, Edward 344-5 |
| Bailey, John 197 |
| Barnes, William 365n18 |
| Bassett, James 323 |
| Bates, John 141 |
| Bayly, John 154, 157 |
| Bedford, Dr James 180 |
| Beesley, William 204, 221, 227, 244, 256 |
| Bell, John 14-17 |
| Benbow, William 63, 79, 104 |
| Beniowski, B. 108, 131-7 passim, 322 |
| Bennett, John 354 |
| Berlioz, Hector 314 |
| Bernard, James 14-15 |
| Binns, George 31, 85, 98, 146, 150, 196, 236 |
| Birks (Sheffield Chartist) 136 |
| Black, George 204 |
| Blakey, Robert 109 |
| Boardman (Sheffield Chartist) 136 |
| Boden, Fanny 267 |
| Bolivar, Simon 273 |
| Booker, Thomas 155 |
| Bowkett, Thomas Edward 257, 331 |
| Bray, John Francis 26 |
| Brewster, Patrick 47, 49-56, 195, 229, 306-7 |
| Bright, John 56, 199, 236, 259, 356 |
| Brook, Joseph 199-10 |
| Brooke, William 155 |
| Brooker, Charles 180 |
| Brophy, Peter 202, 215, 244 |
| Brown, Edward 77. 81 |
| Bunting, Jabez 34 |
| Bunyan, John 151 |
| Burdett, Francis 13 |
| Burley, Edward 156 |
| Burnley 148, 181, 242 |
| Burns, Robert 56, 143 |
| Burns, William 107, 128 |
| Burrows, – (Bradford Chartist) 383n29 |
| Bussey, Peter 59, 61, 65, 81, 85, 101-2, 116-17, 128, 132, 375n55, 376 |
| Byron, George 118, 276 |
| Cade, Jack 30 |
| Campbell, John (Chartist) 159, 219, 227, 237-8, 248, 306 |
| Campbell, Sir John 134, 139 |
| Candelet, George 214, 227 |
| Cardo, William 60, 81, 107-8, 131, 168-9 |
| Carlile, Richard 87, 143 |
| Carpenter, William 35, 57, 255 |
| Carrier, William 38, 68, 85, 150 |
| Carter, Robert Meek 343-5 |
| Carter, Samuel 282, 284, 340, 356 |
| Cartwright, John 7-8, 13, 143 |
| Chadwick, William 315, 326, 342, 359-60 |
| Churchill, John 323 |
| Clark, Thomas 208, 222, 280, 282-3, 287, 297, 335, 338, 354 |
| Clayton, John 155-6, 159 |
| Clayton, Nancy 112 |
| Cleave, John 8, 11, 16, 31, 33, 35, 152, 170-1, 176, 195, 240 |
| Clifford, John 360 |
| Close, Revd Francis 98 |
| Clubb, Henry 325, 402n75 |
| Cobbett, James 60, 75 |
| Cobbett, John 12 |
| Cobbett, William 12-13, 26, 53, 97, 143, 342 |
| Cobden, Richard 197, 252, 259, 311, 318, 321, 346, 356 |
| Cochrane, Charles 297 |
| Collins, John 7, 11, 19, 26, 31-2, 35, 48, 74, 82-3, 85, 95, 102, 143, 150-1, 168-71, 174-7, 194, 198, 249, 289, 345 |
| Collins, John Anderson 54, 307 |
| Cook, Sam 85, 284 |
| Cook, – (Stroud Chartist) 383n29 |
| Coulier, Monsieur 32 |
| Crabtree, Joseph 15, 16, 107 |
| Craig, Hugh 47, 68, 85 |
| Crawford, W. S. 181, 194, 363, 392n30 |
| Cripps, William 313 |
| Cromwell, Oliver 25, 152 |
| Crowe, Robert 302, 304 |
| Croxton, Richard 217 |
| Cudlippe, George 284 |
| Cuffay, William 280, 303-11, 314, 315, 323 |
| D---, Eliza 333 |
| Darbishire, Charles 33 |
| Davenport, Allan 119, 167, 185-6, 256 |
| Davis, George 322-3 |
| Dawson, Ann 261-70 |
| Dawson, Isaac 264-5 |
| Dawson, family of Marcham 255 |
| Dawson, John 264 |
| Dawson, Jonathan 265 |
| Dawson, Sarah Ann 264 |
| Dawson, William (Chartist) 264 |
| Dawson, William (informer) 326 |
| Deegan, John 40, 43 |
| Devyr, Thomas 109, 135, 362n17, 372n11, 375n6, 378n64 |
| Dewhurst, James 199-200. 222 |
| Dickens, Charles 39 |
| Disraeli, Benjamin 84, 250, 274, 286 |
| Dixon, William 297, 299, 381n67 |
| Donovan, Daniel 323 |
| Douglas, Robert 3, 31, 35, 68 |
| Douglass, Frederick 307 |
| Dowling, William 310, 333 |
| Doyle, Christopher 194, 197, 209, 216. 227, 252 |
| Drake, William 189 |
| Duffy, Charles Gavan 334 |
| Duffy, David 306 |
| Duffy, James 155, 267 |
| Duncan, Abram 31-2, 45-7, 51, 59, 65, 78-9, 348 |
| Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby 178-81. 205-7, 245-7, 253-9 passim, 279-80, 285-6, 299, 304, 346, 348, 351, 392n30 |
| Dunning, Thomas 367n48, 378n67 |
| Durham, Lord 47 |
| Dutton, Martha 265 |
| Dyott, William 292-3 |
| Edmonds, George 3, 6, 35 |
| Edwards, Colonel John 88-9, 91 |
| Edwards, William 69 |
| Egerton, Lord Francis 40, 192 |
| Elliott, Ebenezer 125 |
| Emmett, Robert 143 |
| Engels, Frederick 118-19, 230 |
| Etzler, John 92 |
| Ewart, William 301 |
| Farish, William 266, 268, 374n43, 378n57 |
| Ferriday, Mary & William 113, 116 |
| Fielden, John 12, 15-6, 18, 30, 73, 79, 181 |
| Filden, Charles 309 |
| Finlen, James 339-40 |
| Fleming, George 275, 336, 348 |
| Fletcher, Matthew 60, 108, 150 |
| Flinn, George 22 |
| Fox, Barclay 151, 193 |
| Fraser, John 31, 45-7, 49, 51, 54 |
| Frost, John 59, 75, 85, 145, 267, 268 |
| Newport rising 107, 108-12, 114-15, 119, 126, 128-9, 255 |
| trial and sentence 130-40, 151, 154, |
| campaign for return 151, 168-9, 175, 178, 259, 285 |
| returns to UK 351-3 |
| Frost, Mary 119, 145 |
| Frost, Thomas 321 |
| Fussell, John 76-7, 81, 85, 319, 322-3, 334 |
| Gammage, Robert 38, 83, 125, 339-40, 341-2, 362n3, 405 |
| Garrison, William Lloyd 307 |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth 279 |
| George, John 33, 167 |
| Gill, William 61 |
| Gillespie, Thomas 2, 5 |
| Gladstone, William 300, 301, 320 |
| Goddard, Henry 39-40 |
| Gould, William 345 |
| Goulding, Joseph 369n41 |
| Grady, Joe 318 |
| Grassby, Mary 27-8 |
| Graham, Sir J. 206, 209, 223-4, 254, 300 |
| Gray, Basil 115 |
| Green, Frederick 350 |
| Greville, Charles 61, 319 |
| Grey, Sir George 314 |
| Grime, Ben 45 |
| Grimshaw, William 342 |
| Grocott, William 340 |
| Groves, Mary Ann 374n47, 376n18 |
| Hampden, John 99, 143, |
| Hanson. Abram and Elizabeth 22-9, 30-1, 145, 349 |
| Hanson, Feargus O'Connor 29 |
| Hardy, Robert 286 |
| Hardy, Thomas 143 |
| Harney, George Julian 31, 33, 38, 60, 64, 67-8, 74-6 passim, 103, 106, 150-6, 182, 210, 227, 238, 249, 283, 287- 300 passim, 327, 333, 336-7, 346-7, 350 |
| and Northern Star 242-3, 252, 256, 258, 266-7, 293-5, 333-40 passim, 347, 350 |
| Harrison, James 138 |
| Hartly, James 265 |
| Hartwell, Robert 31, 35-7, 57, 286 |
| Heavisides, Henry |
| Henningsen, Charles 273150 |
| Hetherington, Henry 8, 1, 16, 31, 44, 89-80, 101, 110, 143, 152, 160, 170-1, 176, 181, 184-5, 250, 334 |
| Heyworth, Lawrence 229 |
| Hibbert, Julian 143 |
| Hill, William 16, 107, 127-9, 170-3, 177, 219-22 passim, 237-40, 242, 255, 267 |
| Hobhouse, John Cam 301, 377n3 |
| Hobson, Joshua 16, 63, 192, 240, 242-3, 250, 252-3, 256, 274-5, 343 |
| Hodgson, – (Bradford Chartist) 383 |
| Hoey, Peter 151 |
| Hofer, – 143 |
| Hogarth, William 60 |
| Holberry, Samuel 135-6, 151, 152-7, 267 |
| Holmes, Feargus O'Connor |
| Holyoake, G .J. 91, 93, 347, 350, 356 |
| Hooson, Edward 356 |
| Howell, George |
| Howitt, William 26 |
| Hughes, Henry 113 |
| Hughes, Thomas 295 |
| Hume, Joseph 174-5, 335 |
| Hunt, Henry 12-13, 143, 145, 222, 268, 342 |
| Hutchinson, Alexander 220, 245 |
| Hutton, Emmanuel 138-9, 150 |
| Jacobs, Samuel 246-7 |
| ‘Jack the Fifer' – see Rees, John |
| Jackson, John 104-5 |
| John, David 204 |
| Johnson, Colonel W A 181 |
| Jones, Charles 109-11, 129, |
| Jones, Ernest 260, 275-7, 287, 296-7, 299-307 passim, 312, 316-23 passim, 337-8, 342, 345 |
| character 277, 300, 302, 304, 307, 313, 355-7 |
| leads NCA 337-9, 346-7, 350-7 |
| parliamentary candidate 282-3, 340, 345, 357 |
| poetry 119-20, 276-7, 294 |
| death 342, 358 |
| Jones, William 111-14, 119, 127, 134, 139, 140, 151, 158, 175, 178, 259, 285, 351 |
| Jude, Martin 244, 347-8 |
| Kingsley, Charles 304, 356 |
| Knight, John 33 |
| Kydd, Samuel 236-7, 316, 323, 331-3, 347, 359 |
| Lacey, William 323 |
| Lawson, Joseph 225 |
| Leach, John 124, 162-3, 166-7, 171, 173, 195, 209, 216, 219, 226, 237-40, 254-6, 267, 272, 293, 324, 326, 333, 338-9, 349 |
| Lee, Charles 306 |
| Leno, J. B. 119, 319, 347, 356, 359-60 |
| Leveson-Gower, Frederick 281 |
| Linney, Joseph 284, 348, 383n29 |
| Linton, W. J. 119, 177, 287, 347 |
| Litherland, Catherine 265 |
| Livesey, Thomas 242-3 |
| Loveless, George 37, 58 |
| Lovett, William 7-10, 25, 56, 64, 102, 108-10, 122-3, 128-9, 131, 143, 150-1, 167-71, 176-7, 189-90, 195-6, 200, 203, 250, 282, 286, 307, 335, 353, 360 |
| 1839 Convention 64, 71-3, 81-8 passim |
| and NCSU 198-9, 227-8 |
| and O'Connor 9-10, 175-6, 208-9, 236, 248-9, 252, 275, 334, 360 |
| Londonderry, Lord 245 |
| Looney, Frank 323 |
| Lowery, Robert 31, 65, 79-81, 84-6, 101, 103, 107-8, 131, 133-4, 161, 174, 180, 182, 199, 202 |
| Ludlow, J. M. 295 |
| Mabbot, Feargus O'Connor 145 |
| McCarthy, Daniel 319 |
| Mackay, Charles 301, 303 |
| McCartney, Bernard 198, 200, 215, 227 |
| McDouall, Peter 59, 71, 78, 81, 85-6, 101, 105, 108, 124, 143, 150, 169, 178-81, 203-10 passim, 214, 220, 227, 238-9, 252, 255, 267, 292, 296, 305, 316-26 passim |
| McFadyen, Allan 348 |
| Mackay, Donald 316 |
| McRae, John 284, 316, 319, 322, 331 |
| McGrath, Philip 278, 281-3, 387, 296-7, 302-3, 327, 329, 335, 338, 349 |
| Mackay, Charles 301-3 |
| Mackay, Donald 316 |
| Macaulay, Lord 139, 180, 182, 205-6 |
| Macerone, Francis 69, 85, 97, 133, 383n43 |
| Mantle, George 324 |
| Markham, John 61 |
| Marsden, Richard 63, 67, 77, 81 |
| Marshall, James (Sheffield) 136 |
| Marshall, James Garth (Leeds) 173-5, 224, 344 |
| Martin, Walsingham 171 |
| Martin, William 154-5, 171, 182, 184 |
| Marvell, Andrew 118 |
| Marx, Karl 288-9 |
| Mason, John 182, 245 |
| Massey, Gerald 119, 337, 347, 401n44 |
| Matthew, Father 148 |
| Matthew, Patrick 45 |
| Maule, Fox 182 |
| Maw, James 177, 343 |
| Mayne, Sir Richard 303-3 |
| Mazzini, Giuseppe 287 |
| Mead, E. P. (‘Commodore') 237-8, 251 |
| Meagher, Thomas 292-3, 326-7 |
| Melbourne, Lord 105, 139-40, 179 |
| Miall, Edward 193-6, 198, 282 |
| Mills, James 61 |
| Milton, John 118, 201 |
| Mitchel, John 174, 252 |
| Mitchell (Rochdale Chartist) 331 |
| Moir, James 174, 252 |
| Moore, Richard 9 |
| Morris, William 359 |
| Morrison, David 210 |
| Muirhouse, William 214 |
| Muntz, Philip 3, 35, 58, 82 |
| Muntz, George 35, 58, 285, 329n30 |
| Murphy, Thomas 3-4, 6-7, 10 |
| Murray, John 197, 383n21 |
| Napier, General Charles 61-2, 70-1, 74, 77, 98, 100, 132-3, 135 |
| Neesom, Charles 60, 67, 81, 85-6, 131-2, 137, 167, 170-1, 176-7, 184-91 passim, 198, 228 |
| Neesom, Elizabeth 184-91 |
| Newton, William 343-7, 351, 355 |
| Nightingale, Edward 58, 68 |
| Normanby, Lord 105, 121-2, 139-40, 157, 223 |
| Oastler, Richard 15-17, 30, 50, 63, 230, 267, 275, 361n6 |
| O'Brien, James Bronterre 14-16, 35, 45, 102, 145, 198, 203, 207, 236, 241, 257, 272, 289, 335, 336, 338, 349, 356 |
| and Chartist strategy 63, 75-6, 86, 107-8, 161-2, 251, 302 |
| controversies 125, 200, 236, 238, 255-6 |
| O'Brien, William Smith 292-3, 317, 323-4, 326-7, 351 |
| O'Connell, Daniel 35, 47, 202, 271, 293 |
| Chartists and 9-10, 19, 48, 50, 129, 173-5, 178, 273, 362n23 |
| O'Connor, Arthur 198 |
| O'Connor, Feargus |
| character 9-10, 13-14, 45, 64, 124, 129, 183-4, 196, 200-1, 207, 268-9, 273, 288, 313, 333-4 |
| Chartism, his concept 47, 67, 165, 196, 273 |
| Chartism, strategy for 63, 67-9, 72, 79, 81, 86, 102, 104-6, 150, 195-200, 208-9, 274, 281, 299, 321, 327, 332, 344-5, 350 |
| daily newspaper plans 162, 222, 289 |
| health 47-8, 67, 166, 207, 258, 292, 303, 308, 334, 337, 340-1 |
| imprisoned 150, 162, 164-8, 183-4 |
| Ireland, 201-3, 293, 299-300, 334-5 |
| land, early ideas 167-8, 248-51, 253 |
| land plan 257-60, 268-9, 274-5, 278, 281, 291-2, 321, 327-32, 353-4 |
| and Lovett, 9-10, 175-6, 208-9, 236, 248-9, 252, 275, 334, 360 |
| marginal after 1850, 335-9, 342 |
| as MP 286, 293, 298, 311-13, 327 |
| mishandles 1848 petition 299, 302-4, 312-13, 316, 320, 327 |
| ‘new move' 122, 168-78, 189, 358 |
| Newport, alleged complicity in 107-9, 124, 127-40, 255, 289 |
| Northern Star 16-19, 55, 98, 123, 125, 143, 162, 164, 198, 238-40, 242, 247, 249, 252-3, 274-5, 277, 287, 294, 333, 336 |
| Nottingham elections (1842) 208-9; (1846) 254; (1847) 283-6, 289 |
| oratorical style 34-55, 268-9 |
| and origins of Chartism 9-10, 13-19 |
| and Peel 271-4, 286, 297, 336 |
| petitioning, opinions on 63-4, 81, 102, 144, 150, 202-7 |
| posthumous reputation 342, 360 |
| religious views 50, 203, 269 |
| and strike wave (1842) 213, 219, 222, 226-7, 229, 234, 238 |
| temperance views 147-8, 171-2, 207 |
| violence, attitude to 38, 40, 46-8, 50-1, 63, 67-9, 79, 197, 208-9, 261, 299-300, 322 |
| O'Connor, Frank (Francisco) Burdett 273-4 |
| O'Connor, Harriet 341-2 |
| O'Higgins, Patrick 202, 323 |
| O'Neill, Arthur 174, 208, 212, 227, 229, 249 |
| Osbourne, James 85 |
| Otley, Richard 213, 219 |
| Owen, J. M. 157 |
| Owen, Robert 87-8, 94, 152, 249-51, 282, 356 |
| Paine, Thomas 19, 26, 87, 143, 161, 254 |
| Palmer, Thomas 143 |
| Palmerston, Lord 139, 283, 300 |
| Parry, John Humffreys 282, 287, 307 |
| Pattison, William 2, 203, 348 |
| Pease, Elizabeth 193 |
| Peddie, Robert 135, 137-8, 151 |
| Peel, Lady Julia 224 |
| Peel, Sir Robert 73, 192-3, 206, 213-14, 224, 241, 254, 279, 300, 312, 336 |
| Chartist views of 84, 125, 271-4, 284, 286, 297 |
| Penthorpe, Thomas 155 |
| Phillips, Thomas 115-16, 130-1 |
| Philp, Robert Kemp 194-5, 229 |
| Pilling, Elizabeth 231 |
| Pilling, James 231-2 |
| Pilling, Richard 214, 220, 227, 229-35, 250, 345 |
| Pilling, William 234 |
| Pitkethly, Lawrence 59, 250 |
| Place, Francis 9, 35, 170, 176, 194 |
| Potts, William 85 |
| Powell, Thomas (Chartist) 74-5, 87-94 |
| Powell, Thomas (informer) 323, 327, 329 |
| Powlett, John 31 |
| Pratt, Tidd 256-7 |
| Preston, Thomas 56, 167, 254 |
| Price, William 110-11 |
| Prophett, Benjamin 306 |
| Radcliffe, Joseph 326 |
| Reading, T. R. 322 |
| Rees, David 237 |
| Rees, John 111 |
| Reeve, Henry 300 |
| Revans, John 328 |
| Reynolds, G.W.M. 295, 297, 301, 304, 306, 310, 335-6, 342, 350, 356-7 |
| Richards, John 31-3, 65, 101, 212, 217, 227, 241 |
| Richardson, Reginald 31-3, 40, 69, 99, 108, 135, 150, 181-2, 198, 288, 346 |
| Rider, William 67, 171 |
| Ridley, Ruffy (aka Daniel William Ruffey) 221, 223, 349 |
| Roberts, W. P. 28, 37, 68, 85, 127, 150, 194, 207, 244, 246, 282-3, 348 |
| Robertson, Duncan 348 |
| Roebuck, John 9, 35, 207 |
| Rooke, Thomas 183, 360 |
| Ross, Henry 133-4 |
| Ruffey, Daniel William see Ridley, Ruffy |
| Russell, Lord John 60, 72, 84, 99, 105, 112, 223, 271, 279, 313 |
| Rushton, Benjamin 342 |
| Salt, Thos 3, 10, 31, 35, 42-3, 48, 64, 68, 84 |
| Sanger family 113 |
| Sankey, William Villiers 46, 67, 69, 74, 150, 180 |
| Schofield, Revd James 197 |
| Sharp, Alexander 322-3, 334, 337 |
| Shaw, John 316, 354 |
| Shell, George 111, 113-14, 116-17, 120 |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe 118, 276 |
| Shellard, William 111 |
| Sidaway, Thomas 256 |
| Sidney, Algernon 99, 143 |
| Sillett, John 328 |
| Skevington, John 179, 221, 227 |
| Smart, T. R. 33 |
| Smiles, Samuel 173 |
| Smith, James 255 |
| Smyth, John W. 317, 325, 383n29 |
| Somerville, Alexander 108 |
| Spence, Thomas 167, `84 |
| Spurr, Richard 137 |
| Stallwood, Edmund 58, 280 |
| Stansfield, Hamer 194, 380n44 |
| Stephens, Joseph Rayner 32, 34, 37, 48-9, 59, 63, 66, 141-4, 150, 208-9, 226, 256, 268 |
| arrest and trial 39-40, 114-15, 165 |
| character 15-6, 30, 34, 38-9 |
| Stevenson, Matthew 315 |
| Stott, Benjamin 118, 269 |
| Stradling, Alexander 348 |
| Sturge, Joseph 194-8, 208-9, 227-9, 236, 285, 356 |
| Sweet, James 383, 384n57 |
| Taylor, James (Ashton) 326-7, 331 |
| Taylor, James (Rochdale) 162, 195 |
| Taylor, Dr John 31, 36, 46-7, 50, 58, 64, 79-83, 85, 102, 105-10, 128, 131-3, 138, 140, 374n45 & 47 |
| Taylor, Pringle 108 |
| Theobald, Mrs 324 |
| Tell, William 143 |
| Thackeray, William 306 |
| Thomason, William 180, 287 |
| Thompson, George 289, 346 |
| Thompson, Perronet 181, 194, 196, 280 |
| Thompson, Samuel 136, 153 |
| Thorne, Will 360 |
| Thorogood, John 194 |
| Tilley, Richard 85 |
| Tindal, Sir Nicholas 134, 140 |
| Tippins, Isaac 110-11 |
| Tooke, John Horne 143 |
| Tristan, Flora 59-60 |
| Turner, James 2, 6 |
| Tyler, Watt 143 |
| Urquhart, David 108, 131, 352 |
| Vernon, William 299, 316-17, 322-3 |
| Victoria, Queen 23, 40, 73, 102, 130-1, 134, 139, 158, 193, 224, 304, 309, 312, 314-16, 321, 334 |
| Vietinghoff, Joseph 190 |
| Vincent, Henry 31-2, 36-8, 42-4, 59, 64, 68-9, 101, 145, 158, 237, 307 |
| violence 36-7, 84, 106-7 |
| arrest and imprisonment 75, 96, 104, 109-10, 112-14, 119 |
| complete suffrage 194-5, 198-9, 201, 208-9, 229, 237 |
| and O'Connor 161, 170-1, 176, 201, 238, 252, 289 |
| and parliamentary elections 180, 237, 280-7 passim, 318 |
| Volney, Count 143 |
| Wade, Arthur 3-4, 6-7, 10, 31-2, 60, 66-8, 139, 150, 198 |
| Wallace, William 6, 143, 316 |
| Wallas, Graham 360 |
| Walmsley, Joshua 356 |
| Walter, John 208-9 |
| Warden, John 104, 108 |
| Washington, George 143, 268 |
| Watkin, Absalom 215 |
| Watkins, John 117-25, 171, 239 |
| Watson, James 9, 87-8, 90, 287 |
| Wedderburn, Robert 305 |
| Weerth, Georg 383, 392 |
| Wellington, Duke of 96, 312 |
| Wells, William 153 |
| West, John 153 |
| West, John 221, 282, 284, 287, 326, 333 |
| Wharton, Thomas 19 |
| Wheeler, Thomas Martin 248-50, 253, 256, 320, 353-8, 393n49 |
| Whitaker, J. P. 246 |
| Whittaker, Dr J. W. 97 |
| White, George 31, 85, 109, 128-9, 132, 150, 169, 221, 236-8, 242, 245, 249, 251-2, 279, 317-18, 321, 324, 326, 333-4, 343 |
| Whitehead, George 346 |
| Whitmore, William 330 |
| Wilkes, John 13 |
| Williams, James 31, 85, 98, 103, 150-1, 196, 203, 228-9, 236-8 |
| Williams, Joseph 131, 137, 139-40, 297, 319, 322-3, 334 |
| Williams, William 181, 346 |
| Williams, Zephaniah 111-14, 127, 134, 151, 175, 178, 259, 285, 351 |
| Wilson, Benjamin 20, 51, 282, 291, 342 |
| Wilson, John 359 |
| Winters, Thomas 245, 347-51 |
| Wolstenholme, James 378 |
| Wood, Sir Charles 282 |
| Yates, Jeremiah 400n13 |
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About the book
‘This is just what the subject has needed: a strong intertwined narrative and analysis, pulling out new themes as well as old and providing the human touch through brief biographies that link into and enhance the overall argument. A very important book combining scholarship with readability.'
Professor John Walton, University of Central Lancashire
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity.
Malcolm Chase deftly analyses the scope and character of Chartism and explores the aspirations and visions of those who called themselves Chartists. His analysis extends across the whole of Britain, and also to Ireland, and to issues of race and gender as well as re-evaluating established themes in Chartist studies. Throughout, the author relates the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist lives' that illuminate the experience of ‘grassroots' Chartists.
Chartism: A new history is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838–58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material), this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain; specialists, students and general readers alike.
Front cover: ‘A Chartist Meeting, Basin Stones, Todmorden, 1842', A. W. Bayes, Calderdale MBC – Museums and Arts.
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