Dear Archbishop Rowan, I was disappointed with your recent take on the Occupy protests, that they were "rather like that episode in Father Ted where the priests demonstrate with a placard saying 'Down ...

Thomas Carlyle was quite fond of the Chartists – until they opened their mouths. In an essay on Chartism published in 1839, the Sage of Chelsea harangued the political establishment and spoke up for ...

The page recounts how some London Chartists tried to organise an armed rebellion – known as the Orange Tree conspiracy – following the rejection of the third national petition for the Charter. If, ...

In ITV's Victoria, the working-class movement Chartism rocks the country IN ITV’S Victoria, the working-class movement Chartism rocks the country by demanding political reform in the 17th century. We ...

Victoria season three airs every Sunday on ITV at 9pm. Series three picks up in 1848, a difficult time in Victorian history in the UK and abroad. One of the pressing issues facing Britain was the ...