This book challenges the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness'.

This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is u

Working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the fall of Chartism in 1848 to the 1870s.

In 1845 Frederick Engels wrote that 'Manchester is the seat of the most powerful unions, the central point of Chartism, the place which numbers the most Sociali