Containing over 100 pamphlets, this edition provides a resource for the study of Chartism, covering the main areas of Chartist activity, including agitation for the Charter itself, the Land Plan, the issue of moral versus physical force, trade unionism, socialism and co-operation, the involvement of women in the movement, internationalism, religion and the churches, the Anti-Corn Law League, and the Complete Suffrage League. The first half of the 19th century saw a fierce agitation for radical reform in manufacturing areas of Britain, and from the early 1830s the Chartist movement aimed by means of political reform to improve the economic and social conditions of the industrial working classes. Their six-point People’s Charter , a document in the form of an Act of Parliament drafted by Francis Place, called for Universal (male) Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Annually Elected Parliaments, Payment for Members of Parliament, Abolition of the Property Qualification and Equal Electoral Districts.