Chartist

Charists fighting with police

The Chartists were people who wanted to get more rights for working class people in the mid-19th century. They were called Chartists because they wrote their main aims down in the People's Charter of 1838.

Other websites

• The-six-points from CHARTIST ANCESTORS
• Punch Series on "Great Chartest Demonstrations"
• Illustrated London News, April 15th, 1848
• Spartacus index on Chartism