When workers fought for the vote: Isle of Wight study group on British working-class history (1)

For explanation and details of the whole course, see here.

We will look at the Chartists, Britain's first mass working-class movement, whose campaign for everyone to have the vote created a social crisis; and at the movement associated with Robert Owen, which pursued a different strategy for overcoming capitalism.

Reading: GDH Cole and Raymond Postgate's book, The Common People, chapters 22-25.