Étiquette : Conditions sociales — Grande-Bretagne — 19e siècle

I talk to Matthew Roberts, a historian of Chartism at Sheffield Hallam University, about the Chartist rising which took place in Newport, South Wales, in November 1839, just after Parliament had rejected the first national petition for the People’s Charter. Chartism was a mass, working-class movement for democratic reform which emerged in industrialising Britain in…