| Nineteenth-century popular movements for parliamentary reform such as Chartism turned to Magna Carta for support. |
| But, Cordery argues, the collapse of Chartism as a national political movement was a turning point in the development of friendly societies. |
| Many historians see chartism as a product of the economic experiences of the working classes. |
| Working class liberalism was a result of the defeat of Chartism, which led to the politics of accommodation, compromise and so on. |
| The alarms of Chartism died out, and the blessings of a liberal economy were celebrated for the next half century. |
| But if initial opposition to the police did come from the landed gentry, this evaporated as the threat of Chartism grew. |
