The People’s Charter, drawn up by the London Working Men’s Association and published in May 1838, was a detailed blueprint for a parliament bill. Those who campaigned for its implementation were known as Chartists.
Chartism was a mass movement that swept across Britain in the late 1830s and 1840s. At its height it commanded the support of some 3 million people. Most Chartists were working-class people and did not have the right to vote in elections. They used a range of strategies and tactics to try to persuade Parliament to implement the People’s Charter, including petitioning, mass meetings and setting up their own newspapers and organisations.
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