Chartist riots at Newport, Wales, 1839. The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rising in Wales, by Chartists whose demands included democracy and the right to vote with a secret ballot. Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England.

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