Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie was indoctrinated in the democratic, pacifistic tenets of his father, a Chartist radical. |
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That is the reason why the temperance movement had support not only in the chapels but in the Chartist movement and later trade unions. |
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Like other Chartist papers it was often read aloud in coffee houses, workplaces and the open air. |
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The popularity of the Chartist movement between 1828 and 1858 led to a desire to refortify the Tower of London in the event of civil unrest. |
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The decade around 1840 was a period of great social upheaval in Wales, manifested in the Chartist movement. |
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The Chartist movement of the 1830s and 1840s was the first mass revolutionary movement of the British working class. |
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The Chartist movement's reformist goals, although not immediately and directly attained, were gradually achieved. |
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There were serious Chartist riots in the town in 1842 and again six years later. |
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Not only did Engels already know the English language, he had also developed a close relationship with many Chartist leaders. |
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Indeed, Engels was serving as a reporter for many Chartist and socialist English newspapers. |
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The Chartist movement and the 1839 Newport Rising showed the growing concerns and awareness of the work force of their value to the nation. |
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By the summer of 1839 three more towns in the region had founded such societies, and the first Chartist convention had been held. |
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The Chartist movement of 1831 did not consider the reforms put forward by The Reform Act of 1832 to be extensive enough. |
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He frequented areas popular among members of the English labour and Chartist movements, whom he met. |
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By the 1830s, when the Chartist movement was at its peak, a true and widespread 'workers consciousness' was awakening. |
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By the 1830s, when the Chartist movement was at its peak, a true and widespread 'workers' consciousness' was beginning to awaken in England. |
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Several Chartist leaders, including O'Connor, George Julian Harney, and Thomas Cooper were arrested. |
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Rosedene, a Chartist cottage in Dodford, Worcestershire, is owned and maintained by the National Trust, and is open to visitors by appointment. |
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More commonly, Chartist candidates participated in the open meetings, called hustings, that were the first stage of an election. |
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After the defeat of April 1848, there was an increase rather than a decline in Chartist activity. |
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Throughout the 1850s, there remained pockets of strong support for the Chartist cause in places such as the Black Country. |
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Marx and Engels at the same time commented on the Chartist movement and Jones' work in their letters and articles. |
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In 1854, Chartist demands were put forward by the miners at the Eureka Stockade on the gold fields at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. |
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The Chartist movement was criticised by Thomas Carlyle in his 1840 book Chartism. |
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He associated also with the Chartist Thomas Cooper, whose wife was a relation. |
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In the 1830s, at the height of the Chartist movement, there was a general tendency towards reformism in the United Kingdom. |
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The great Chartist rally in 1848, a campaign for social reform by the working class began in the square. |
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This split the alliance between the working class and the middle class, giving rise to the Chartist Movement. |
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Testimonies exist from contemporaries, such as the Yorkshire Chartist Ben Wilson, that Newport was to have been the signal for a national uprising. |
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Annual elections remain the only Chartist demand not to be implemented. |
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Despite this second set of arrests, Chartist activity continued. |
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Cottages built by the Chartist Land Company are still standing and inhabited today in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and on the outskirts of London. |
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Secret cells were set up, covert meetings were held in the Chartist Caves at Llangynidr and weapons were manufactured as the Chartists armed themselves. |
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In particular, the Chartist movement, which demanded universal suffrage for men, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot, gained a widespread following. |
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On 10 April 1848, a new Chartist Convention organised a mass meeting on Kennington Common, which would form a procession to present a third petition to Parliament. |
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In 1842, a general strike involving cotton workers and colliers was organised through the Chartist movement which stopped production across Great Britain. |
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The most famous, of course, was Dr William Price, the pioneer cremationist and Chartist rebel, of whom there is a less than satisfactory statue on the square. |
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In 1837 a Working Men's Association was established in the south Wales weaving town of Carmarthen in response to the Chartist campaign for democratic rights. |
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This is believed to be the only Chartist Hymnal in existence. |
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