Chartists

And the most genuine and purely popular movement that we have had since the Chartists has been the enlistment for this war.

The Crimes of England 1905

There had been a great meeting at Chester-le-Street of those who were at this time beginning to be known as Chartists, and, the Act having been lately passed that torchlight meetings were illegal, this assembly had gathered by the light of a waning moon long since hidden by the clouds.

In Kedar's Tents Henry Seton Merriman 1882

Karl Marx was not known in England, and the Russian Revolution was still in the distant future, but a few radical left-wing idealists know as Chartists and Swings were beginning to be heard on campus, and Tom gets briefly involved with them, speaking up for the poor, but realizes their destructive ideas cannot be reconciled with proper

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

The so-called "Chartists" got international attention.

Printing: Rock 'n' Roll: Art or Politics? 2006

The so-called "Chartists" got international attention.

Rock 'n' Roll: Art or Politics? 2006

During all these years the 'Chartists' had been vainly struggling to force Parliament to proceed with reform of their grievances.

Queen Victoria E. Gordon Browne

And the most genuine and purely popular movement that we have had since the Chartists has been the enlistment for this war. "

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

If there is a comparison to be made with Europe it is 1848, when the revolutionary upheavals left only Britain and Spain untouched – even though Queen Victoria, thinking of the Chartists, feared otherwise.

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The Chartists also had a lot of fake names on their petitions.

Matthew Yglesias » “Vince Vince” Wants Sanctions on Iran 2009

Chartists will tell you that gold is way over bought yet you have to wonder if the charts mean anything when the system starts breaking down and we start having massive failures throughout the economy, and those failures are out there.

Archive 2009-11-29 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009