(n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Best known for his trilogy on 19th-century social history, Victorian People (1954), Victorian Cities (1963) and Victorian Things (1988), Briggs also wrote a penetrating short essay on Chartism (1959) that has stood the test of time, plus studies of Karl Marx in London and a company history of Marks and Spencer.
Chartist
Definition:
(n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
(2) Naturally the government, which has voted it down in the Commons already, instantly declared they would reverse it , as Tories have done with every constitutional reform from the Chartists to the suffragettes.
(3) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
(4) The failure to adopt the basic Chartist principal that MPs should represent equal numbers of voters is not the only issue to explain Labour's inbuilt advantage.
(5) He invoked Hyde Park's history of protest, the Suffragettes, the Chartists (no mention of the Countryside Alliance's 1998 demo or the reform riots of 1866) and said how "profoundly moved" he was to be there.
(6) There are several portraits of Dadd's patron, Sir Thomas Phillips , a magistrate knighted for putting down a chartist protest.
(7) Pioneering social historians had been studying working people since the early 20th century, but the focus remained squarely on the tangible, the measurable, the "significant" – wages, living conditions, unions, strikes, Chartists.
(8) It would also enable easier, more frequent expressions of the popular will – for example, a vote on a coalition programme developed in response to a hung parliament or even the annual parliaments proposed by the Chartists.
(9) I wish Ernest Jones , a favourite Chartist, was on the list.
(10) I suspect that if they are locked up then history will pass the same verdict upon them as it has passed upon suffragettes, Chartists, the pioneers of trade unionism, and civil and gay rights activists.
(11) Who knows, our campaign might even awaken England’s dormant radical tradition – a story of Chartists, Diggers, Levellers and a core belief of self-determination for the voiceless.
(12) But the other week, I spoke to senior Welsh politician who said she could see no other option but the spoiling of her ballot paper, which struck me as by far the most sensible option: much as one must always glumly troop to the polling station thinking of the Chartists and suffragettes, the lack of convincing options and pathetic efforts at raising awareness mean that in the case, any meaningful "x" is impossible.
(13) My history lessons introduced me to the guerrilla trade unionism of the Scotch Cattle and the Chartist campaign for popular democracy .
(14) In the following years, the Chartists emerged – the world's first great working-class political movement.
(15) The first and more violent Grosvenor Square demo against the Vietnam war in 1968 attracted a reported 60,000, the poll tax riots of 1990 three times as many, the Chartist demo in 1848 even more.
(16) It set a precedent to be followed by the Bill of Rights in 1689 , the Chartists of the 1830s and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, in the process inspiring the French Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 and even the US constitution.
(17) Or the England of the freeborn radical, the Levellers, Chartists, Tolpuddle martyrs and suffragettes?
(18) Our indigenous radical tradition has deep roots: roots that stretch back through the suffragettes and the Chartists; back through John Wilkes and Thomas Paine ; back, arguably, even through the Levellers to the Lollards .
(19) From the civil war radicals to the chartists, from Keir Hardie to George Orwell, the heritage of British leftism is a democratic one.
(20) In Newport is John Frost Square, memorialising the 1839 Chartist march on Newport from the valleys’ iron and coal towns, and its strategically disastrous stand-off with the military.