What was Chartism, how did it manifest in the Midlands, and why is it still worth talking about now?
In this talk, Pete Higgins of Birmingham People's History Archive will address these questions, and will outline the various tendencies at work among Chartist groups in the Midlands—including those who believed in the honourable business of constitutional politics, as well as those of a considerably more radical stripe...
This is the second part of a talk that began with the origins of trade unionism and the attitudes of early militant workers in Britain.
