Popular Movements in England and Wales, 1815-1845

Key Issues

Titles

Chapters

• 'Orator' Hunt and the St. Peter's Field massacre
• Apathy of many workers
• Background and characteristics of rural protest in 1820s and 1830s: William Cobbett and agrarian unrest
• Barnardo
• Bogus signatures
• Changes in the treatment of women prisoners
• Chartism: its causes, development, leadership, decline and consequences
• Chartism: its growth and impact
• Children's homes
• Collapse of the GNCTU
• Contribution to political and social change
• Corn Riots, 'Captain Swing' and the main disturbances in southern England, 1830-31
• Crawshay and the ironmasters
• Disappointment with 1832 Reform Act
• Distraction of other movements
• divisions within the movement
• Economic and social conditions
• Economic conditions
• Elizabeth Fry and her views on reform
• Government firmness
• Government responses; the Combination Acts, reasons for their passing and subsequent repeal
• Gradual (later) achievement of most of the aims
• industrial and agrarian unrest
• Influence of Methodism on working class life
• John Howard and his influence
• Methodism
• moral and physical force Chartism
• Moral v Physical Force Chartists, including the role of Attwood
• Moral v Physical Force Chartists, including the role of Lovett
• Moral v Physical Force Chartists, including the role of O'Connor
• Opposition to the Poor Law
• Orator' Hunt and the St. Peter's Field massacre
• Owen and the GNCTU
• Peterloo
• popular reaction to the reform of parliament
• Prison conditions
• Problem of poverty in towns and cities
• Reasons for the rise of Chartism
• Reasons for the rise of Chartism, popular reaction to the reform of parliament and the new Poor Law
• results and significance of Peterloo for growth of popular radicalism
• rural protest with particular reference to the Rebecca Riots
• Salvation Army
• the aftermath of the 'Rising': arrest, trial and execution of Dic Penderyn
• the Cato Street Conspiracy
• The causes and nature of Chartism
• The Charter and Petitions to Parliament
• the Convention and the First Petition
• the Corn Laws
• the Court of Requests
• the demand for political reform
• The grievances of the people of Merthyr, 1831
• the legacy of the Merthyr 'Rising' and the growth of Welsh working-class consciousness
• the legacy of the Merthyr 'Rising' and the growth of Welsh working-class consciousness
• the main events, May/June 1831
• the name 'Rebecca', the main events 1839-43, the Commission of Enquiry and its findings
• the name 'Rebecca', the main events 1839-43, the Commission of Enquiry and its findings
• the nature and characteristics of Chartist protest with particular reference to the march on Newport, 1839
• the nature of and reaction to radicalism and post-war disturbances: the 'Blanketeers'
• the nature of and reaction to radicalism and post-war disturbances: the Spa Fields Riot
• the nature of industrial protest
• the need for protection, early combinations, trade clubs, friendly societies
• the new Poor Law
• The Newport Rising
• The origins, impact and reasons for the decline of the Chartist movement
• the People's Charter
• the People's Charter
• The post-war situation: political, economic and social
• the Reform Crisis
• the role of central government
• the role of Frost
• the role of Lovett
• the role of O'Connor
• the Second Petition and the changing fortunes of Chartism
• the Six Acts
• the social and economic condition of South-West Wales: poverty, land hunger, the turnpike system
• The Tolpuddle Martyrs
• trade union agitation
• truck shops
• wage levels
• Wesley's ideas and preaching
• William Booth