Sentences with phrase «century chartists»
At a time when the country was straining every nerve to resist an imminent invasion, the provisional committee of the Convention produced a six - point programme, no doubt designed to resemble the six points of the nineteenth - century Chartists.
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Indeed, it was embraced by the likes of Robert Owen and the Chartists in the first half of the nineteenth century, who called for an extension of the charter to the people in the form of a people's charter, for similar reasons.
Our image of nineteenth - century political debate is one dominated by a handful of extraordinary public speakers — Henry «Orator» Hunt, the Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor, Disraeli, Gladstone.
By Nancy Platts Trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a better democracy for working people, whether it was the Chartists pushing for the right to vote in the 19th century to the Scottish TUC's role campaigning for a Scottish parliament two decades ago.
The Levellers of the 17th century, 18th - century radicals, the Chartists and the Reform Acts are all part of the unsteady and fiercely contested progress towards a democratic constitution.
It is titled «19th - Early 20th Century Society in Britain: Class Structure, Chartists and Attitudes towards Women».