Struggles of an Old Chartist
Memoirs of the Chartist movement by Benjamin Wilson of Salterhebble, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Benjamin Wilson
Date: 1886
Location: Halifax
Format: Biography
Document ID: 100896
Library ID: 13960019
"Struggles of an Old Chartist; What he knows, and the part he has taken in various movements."
Contents include: " The Peterloo Massacre; The Chartist Movement and its Leaders; The Exciting Scenes of 1839 and '48; How Elections and Township's Affairs were Conducted 40 years ago; The Plug Plot Riots of 1842; The Origin and Struggles of the Co-operative Movement in Halifax; The Reform League's Agitation and the Hyde Park Riot; The Marquis of Salisbury's Description of the 1867 Reform Bill; A Complete Record of the Halifax Borough and Municipal Elections. &c., &c., &c."
