Chartism, a movement for social and political reform took its name from The People's Charter of 1838. The great 'turn out', August 1842: At Preston, Lancashire, police, advance on a crowd into which the troops are firing. Two rioters shot. From "The Illustrated London News", 20 August 1842.

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