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The People's Charter: Democratic Agitation in Early Victorian Britain
Stephen Roberts
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Description for The People's Charter: Democratic Agitation in Early Victorian Britain
paperback. The peopleAs charter was the most famous and important radical manifesto of 19th century Britain. Editor(s): Roberts, Stephen. Series: Chartist Studies Series. Num Pages: 217 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Hostile MPs, police spies, mass arrests, picked juries, jails that made prisoners ill and killed them - these were just some of the difficulties faced by working people who campaigned for the vote and some measure of equality before the law in the early Victorian period. Much of the best scholarship on the Chartists has been published in scholarly journals and has therefore been unavailable to the general reader. This volume presents a selection of key essays: Eileen Yeo on Christianity and Chartism; Christopher Godfrey on Chartist prisoners; Paul Pickering on selling Chartist goods and merchandise; Robert Hall on remembering ... Read more
Hostile MPs, police spies, mass arrests, picked juries, jails that made prisoners ill and killed them - these were just some of the difficulties faced by working people who campaigned for the vote and some measure of equality before the law in the early Victorian period. Much of the best scholarship on the Chartists has been published in scholarly journals and has therefore been unavailable to the general reader. This volume presents a selection of key essays: Eileen Yeo on Christianity and Chartism; Christopher Godfrey on Chartist prisoners; Paul Pickering on selling Chartist goods and merchandise; Robert Hall on remembering ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Merlin Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Series
Chartist Studies Series
Number of Pages
217
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780850365146
SKU
V9780850365146
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About Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is affiliated to the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, He is a full time history teacher and researcher.
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