Matthew Roberts. Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero. London: Routledge, 2021, 250 p.
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Chartism was a mass social and political movement which emerged in Britain in the mid-1830s after what was considered by many as the ‘great betrayal’ of the 1832 Reform Act and the opprobrium generated by the punitive New Poor Law introduced by the Whig ministry in 1834. The movement’s leaders and participants rallied round the ‘six points’ of the People’s Charter, a blueprint for democratic reform, which was presented to Parliament as part of a sustained petitioning campaign on three separat...