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May 22, 2024 · The campaign for the ‘People’s Charter’, a democratic movement which thrived in the decade after 1838, was probably the most important mass movement in British history. Chartism captivated contemporaries and has had a magnetic attraction for historians, generating over 100 books and articles in the last decade alone.
2 days ago · On Sunday the 27 Jan'y [1839] was published the first number of the peoples paper 'The Charter'. (fn. 2) It was a large paper containing 16 pages each page 12 inches wide and 18 inches long, and was sold for sixpence. The Title was 'The Charter.
May 28, 2024 · Reform Bill, any of the British parliamentary bills that became acts in 1832, 1867, and 1884–85 and that expanded the electorate for the House of Commons and rationalized the representation of that body. The first Reform Bill primarily served to transfer voting privileges from the small boroughs.
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1 day ago · A 'holy and peaceful pilgrimage' was planned to Glasgow, where reformers of a similar frame of mind were gathering together, and while in Glasgow in May 1838 Attwood and Douglas had talks with representatives of the London Working Men's Association, which had drafted the People's Charter.
5 days ago · There had, it is true, been rumblings in York in the 1840's. In July 1839, at a chartist meeting held in York and addressed by Dr. Taylor, Bussey, and Feargus O'Connor, no more than 300 or 400 signatures were obtained in favour of the People's Charter from an audience estimated at 5,000.
6 days ago · Centered around the People's Charter of 1838, it aimed to address inequalities worsened by the Industrial Revolution and laid the groundwork for future democratic reforms in Great Britain (ChatGPT)
May 10, 2024 · The Mennonites trace their origins particularly to the so-called Swiss Brethren, an Anabaptist group that formed near Zürich on January 21, 1525, in the face of imminent persecution for their rejection of the demands of the Zürich reformer Huldrych Zwingli.
