Chartists treason trial. 19th-century artwork of a courthouse with Chartists (far right) being tried for treason by judges (left),barristers (foreground),and a jury (background). Chartism was a political movement in the UK that failed to achieve reforms such as extending the vote and right to be a Member of Parliament to the working classes. Following a People's Charter of 1838,national conventions,petitions,public unrest,general strikes,trials,and parliamentary votes took place. The movement died out in the 1850s. Artwork from 'History of the Chartist Movement' (Robert George Gammage,1894) |