Acknowledgements

General Introduction. The Chartist movement: a brief history

Selection of texts

Further reading

The Life, Writings, and Principles of Thomas Spence (1836)

Allen Davenport

Reasons in Support of an Extension of the Elective Franchise to the Working Classes (1836)

Humphrey Price

London Working Men's Association, Address and Rules of the Working Men's Association (c. 1836)

London Working Men's Association, An Address to the People of Canada {c. 1837}

State Churches Destructive of Christianity (1837)

Robert Lowery

London Trades' Committee, An Address From The London Trades' Committee, Appointed to Watch the Parliamentary Inquiry into Combinations, to the Working Classes (1838)

Rich and Poor. A Conversation Between Thomas Tomkins and William Wilkins (1838)

An Address on the People's Charter {c. 1838}

Humphrey Price

'A Committee of Twelve Persons, Six Members of Parliament and Six Members of the London Working Men's Association', The People's Charter (1838)

London Working Men's Association, The Working Men's Association, to the Working Classes of Europe, and Especially to the Polish People {c. 1838}

London Working Men's Association, An Address from the Working Mens' Association to the People of England, in Reply to the Objections of the Press {1838}

An Address to the Working Men of England, Especially those from Eighteen to Thirty Years of Age, who are Capable of Serving in the Standing Army (1838)

Peter Bussey

A Glance at the Present Times, Chiefly with Reference to the Working Men (c. 1838)

Humphrey Price

The Political Preacher; An Appeal from the Pulpit on Behalf of the Poor (1839)

Joseph Rayner Stephens

The Political Pulpit, Nos 1-13 (1839)

J. R. Stephens

'The Trial of the Rev. Mr Stephens for Uttering Seditious Language. Before Mr Justice Patteson' (1839)

The Book of Murder! A Vade-mecum for the Commissioners and Guardians of the New Poor Law throughout Great Britain and Ireland (1839)

George Mudie

Volume 2

Address to the Fathers and Mothers, Sons and Daughters, of the Working Classes, on the System of Exclusive Dealing (1839)

Robert Lowery

The Right of Englishmen to Have Arms (1839)

R. J. Richardson

Our Rights: or, The Just Claims of the Working Classes, Stated, in a Letter to the Rev. T. H. Madge, Curate of Kettering (1839)

John Jenkinson

Common Sense, Under a Government 'Pro Tempore,' Addressed to a Body of Gentlemen, Deputed from Certain Large Districts for National Purposes (1839)

John Collier

The Female Chartists' Visit to the Parish Church (1839)

Francis Close

A Chartist's Reply to `A Few Words to the Chartists, by' One Styling Himself 'A Friend' (1839)

Anon

The Ballot (1839)

James Bulkeley

An Address to that Portion of the People of Great Britain and Ireland Calling Themselves Reformers, on the Political Excitement of the Present Time (1839)

Richard Carlile

Manifesto of the General Convention of the Industrious Classes (1839)

William Lovett

The Way to Universal Suffrage (1839)

Anon

Political Monopoly Hostile to the Spirit and Progress of Christianity (c. 1840)

Anon

Finsbury Tract Society, The Question `What is a Chartist?' Answered (c. 1840)

A Few Hints about the Army (c. 1840)

Anon

Chartism, Trades-Unionism, and Socialism; or, Which is the Best Calculated to Produce Permanent Relief to the Working Classes? A Dialogue (1840)

Thomas Hunt

Chartism; A New Organization of the People, Embracing a Plan for the Education and Improvement of the People, Politically and Socially (1840)

William Lovett

The Rights of Woman: Exhibiting Her Natural, Civil, and Political Claims to a Share in the Legislative and Executive Power of the State (1840)

R. J. Richardson

Class Legislation Exposed; or, Practical Atheism Identified with the Advocates of Property Qualification for Legislative Enfranchisement (1841)

R. T. Morrison

Chartism v. Whigism. A Letter to the Rev. R. S. Bayley, F.S.A. in reply to his Charges against the Chartists (1841)

Anon

The Remedy for National Poverty and Impending National Ruin: or The Only Safe Way of Repealing the Corn Laws (1841)

Feargus O'Connor

Chartism. Authentic Report of the Speech of Mr William Jones (1841)

William Jones

The Radical Reformers of England, Scotland, & Wales, to the Irish People (c. 1841)

William Lovett

Reconciliation between the Middle and Labouring Classes (1842)

Edward Miall

The People's Rights: and How to Get Them (1842)

Thomas Spencer

The Land & Its Capabilities. A Lecture and Repeal of the Union (1842)

Feargus O'Connor

Volume 3

Report of the Proceedings at the Conference of Delegates, of the Middle and Working Classes, Held at Birmingham. April 5, 1842, and Three Following Days {1842}

The State of the Country, As the Effect of Class Legislation; and the Charter as the Remedy. A Lecture, Delivered in the Chartist Room, Manchester, April 10th, 1842 {1842}

David Ross

Cosmopolite, Moral Force Address to the Members of the Infidel Pirate Government of Britain (1842)

What Says Christianity to the Present Distress? (1842)

Henry Solly

The Council of the National Complete Suffrage Union, to Political Reformers of All Shades of Opinion (1842)

A Letter to Feargus O'Connor, Esq. (1842)

Samuel Wellwood

A Letter to Daniel O'Connell, Esq., MP (1843)

William Lovett

Letter from Mr Lovett to Messrs Donaldson and Mason (1843)

William Lovett

An Answer to John Humffreys Parry, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law (1843)

George White

The Seven Chartist and Military Discourses (1843)

Patrick Brewster

Stubborn Facts From the Factories, by a Manchester Operative (1844)

James Leach

The Employer and Employed. The Chambers' Philosophy Refuted (1844)

Feargus O'Connor

Address From the Members of the National Association for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People, to the Working Classes of France, on the Subject of War (1844)

An Humble Apology For Peace, by the National Association for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People (1844)

Address of the General Council of the National Charter Association, To the Inhabitants of Manchester and Its Vicinity (c. 1845)

Volume 4

Rights of Labour. With Proposals for a New Basis for the National Suffrage (1844)

Thomas Bailey

'All Men are Brethren.' (1845)

William Lovett

An Address to the Chartists of the United Kingdom by the National Association for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People (1845)

William Lovett

An Address...to the Working Classes of America, on the War Spirit that is Sought to be Excited between the Two Countries (1846)

William Lovett

An Address...on the Subject of the Militia (1846)

William Lovett

An Address to the People of Great Britain on the Protection of Native Industry (1846)

James Leach

Address of the Fraternal Democrats Assembling in London to the Working Classes of Great Britain and the United States (1846)

Fraternal Democrats

A Practical Work on the Management of Small Farms, third edition (1846)

Feargus O'Connor

Enrolment of the Militia for Immediate Service!! {1846}

William Lovett

Proposal for Forming a People's League, Addressed to the Radical Reformers of the United Kingdom {1846}

William Lovett

People's International League, Address of the Council of the People's International League (1847)

'Alastor', An Address to the Chartists of the United Kingdom, on the Attainment of the Charter by Means of Building Societies (1847)

Anon., Report of a Public Meeting `To Explain the Principles and Objects of the People's International League' (1847)

Address of the Fraternal Democrats Assembling in London, to the Members of the National Diet of Switzerland {1847}

Fraternal Democrats

A Proposal for the Consideration of the Friends of Progress {1847}

William Lovett

Tracts for Fustian Jackets and Smock Frocks, Nos 1-17 {1847-9}

Benjamin Parsons

Volume 5

The Charter, What it Means! The Chartists, What they Want! (1848)

Peter Murray McDouall

Physical Force. An Address to All Classes of Reformers, but Especially to Those who are Unjustly Excluded from the Franchise (1848)

George Bown

'A Working Man', Moral Force: A Reply to an Address entitled Physical Force (1848)

Direct Taxation, Financial Reform, and the Suffrage. A Letter Addressed to All Reformers (1848)

Samuel Kydd

The People's League. To the People of London and its Vicinity (1848)

William Lovett

National Association, Address to the French People (1848)

'H. G.', Address to the Working Classes of Great Britain (1848)

ed., The Land for the Labourers, and the Fraternity of Nations: A Scheme for a New Industrial System, just Published in Paris, and Intended for Proposal to the National Assembly (1848)

Thomas Cooper

Justice Safer than Expediency: an Appeal to the Middle Classes on the Question of the Suffrage (1848)

William Lovett

Aristocracy and Democracy (1848)

Joseph Barker

The Land Monopoly, the Suffering and Demoralization Caused by it; and the Justice and Expediency of its Abolition (1849)

Ebenezer Jones

America Compared with England. The Respective Social Effects of the American and English Systems of Government and Legislation; and the Mission of Democracy (1849)

Robert W. Russell

Eight Letters to the Young Men of the Working--Classes (1850)

Thomas Cooper

John West and George White, Chartist Tracts for the Times, Nos 1-2, 4-7 (1850)

James Leach

Volume 6

The People's Land, and an Easy Way to Recover It. Three Letters to the Editor of the `Nation' (1850)

William Linton

Reflections upon the Past Policy, and Future Prospects of the Chartist Party. Also, a Letter Condemnatory of Private Assassination, as Recommended by Mr G. J. Harney (1850)

Thomas Clark

Propositions of the National Reform League. For the Peaceful Regeneration of Society {1850}

The Charter: What It Is, and Why We Want It (1854)

R. G. Gammage

Republican Tracts, Nos 1-20 {1855}

William Linton

Evenings with the People, Nos 1-10 (1856-7)

Ernest Jones

The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery, (1885)

James Bronterre O'Brien

Appendix: Some Biographical Notes Respecting Persons Associated With the Chartist Movement

Index