Suggested Further Reading What follows is an attempt at a working bibliography for students, confined to the years covered by the documents. A fuller bibliography of the whole movement can be found in G. D. H. Cole, 'Chartist Portraits', the 1965 edition of which has a bibliographical foreword by Asa Briggs which brings it up to that date. F. C. Mather's admirable Historical Association pamphlet 'Chartism', also published in 1965, contains a com­ prehensive review of writing about Chartism, and a fuller bibliography of recent material can be gathered from a file of the 'Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History', which lists all relevant publications, including many articles which have appeared outside the usual historical journals. The 'Bulletin' also contains occasional review articles on Chartism, as well as listing unpublished theses and work in progress. It should certainly be consulted by any one intending to begin serious work on Chartism. The most recent bibliographical article is by W. H. Maehl, in the 'Journal of Modern History' of September 1969, which covers publications up to that date. Some further bibliographical references will be found in the notes to the Introduction. Since the study of Chartism takes in so many aspects of the social history of the middle years of the nineteenth century, most general histories, biographies, memoirs, etc. which cover those years make some reference to it or throw some light on its background. In the same way almost every newspaper and periodical published in the relevant years contains some reference to it. It would be impossible, and not very useful, to list all such sources. I have therefore only listed here books and journals which throw considerable light on the subject, or which contain important information which cannot be obtained elsewhere .. The publications of the Chartists themselves, locally and nationally, were considerable in number and variety in the early years. A check list of all Chartist publications is in preparation, but since my own list is very far from complete, and inevitably contains many items which are extremely rare, I have not tried to make even a partial list of pamphlets and broadsides, but 294 have listed only the journals of the period, many of which can be seen at the British Museum newspaper library at Colindale, and some of which are now available on microfilm and can be seen at provincial or university libraries. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES Home Office Papers (Public Record Office) Series 40/ Mainly correspondence relating to disturbances. The series is divided into bundles by counties, dates and subjects. Series 41/ Entry books corresponding to series 40. Other relevant bundles include 41/26 (London), 48/33 and 49/8 (Law Officers), 61/22 (Metropolitan Police), and 79/4-5 (Entry books private and secret, which contain warrants for opening mails in the post). Treasury Solicitor's Papers (Public Record Office) Various bundles relating to Crown prosecutions, including T.S. 11/499: Papers re Frost, Williams and Jones and others, indictments and abstract of evidence. T.S. 11/1030, 4424 A, B, C, D, E, F: various provincial Chartist trials, mainly for drilling, but including (F), that of J. R. Stephens. • T.S. 11/814, 2678: Queen v. Peddie; T.S. 11/816, 2688: Queen v. Holberry and others. J?lace Collection (British Museum) Add. MSS 27,819:Historical narrative of the formation of the London Working Men's Association, proceedings of the society etc. 27,820: Continuation of above; proceedings of the Birmingham Political Association. 27,821: Continuation 1839. 34,245: Letter-books of the National Convention of the Industrious Classes. 37,773: L.W.M.A. minute book, 1836-9. Place Newspaper Collection, especially Set 56, Vol. 1, newspaper cuttings relating to the early period of the Chartist movement. 295 Lovett Collection (Birmingham Public Library) Two volumes of cuttings, leaflets, MSS correspondence, etc., nearly all relating to the Convention. Harewood Papers (Leeds Reference Library) Correspondence of Lord Harewood, who was Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire during this period. Linton Collection 20 volumes of cuttings, presented by Linton to the British Museum in 1895, covering the years 1836-86. MSS and correspondence in the Feltronelli Institute, Milan. Frost material A full list of the MSS and other material relating to Frost and the Welsh Chartists is in David Williams, 'John Frost' (1939). REPRINTED DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL G. D. H. Cole and W. H. Filson, 'British Working Class Move­ ments' (sections xii, xiii, xiv). Francis Place, ed. D. J. Rowe, 'London Radicalism 1830-1843, a Selection from the Papers of Francis Place' (London Record Society, 1970). ] ohn Collins and William Lovett (introduction by Asa Briggs), 'Chartism, a New Organisation of the People' (published 1840, reprinted Leicester U.P. 1970). NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS Chartist and Owenite journals published in English zn the years 183 7-40 'Ayrshire Examiner', July 1838-Nov 1839. 'Bronterre's National Reformer', 1837. *'Birmingham] ournal', 183 7-40. 'The Charter', Oct 1838-March 1840. 'The Chartist', Nov 1838-July 1839. 'The Chartist Circular' (Glasgow), 1839-42. 'The Champion', 1836-40. 'The Dundee Chronicle', 1835-6, 1840-2. * Papers which, although not Chartist publications, contain much more than the usual amount of Chartist news in the years indicated. 296 'Edinburgh Monthly Democrat and Total Abstainers' Advocate', July-Oct 1838. 'English Chartist Circular'. 'The London Democrat', April-June 1839. 'The London Dispatch and Peoples' Political and Social Reformer', 1836-9. 'The London Mercury', 1836-7. *'The Manchester and Salford Advertiser', 1837-40. 'The Midland Counties Illuminator', 1839-41. 'The New Moral World', 1837-9. 'The Northern Liberator', 1837-40. 'The Northern Star', 1837-52. 'The Operative', Oct 1838-June 1839. *'The Scots Times', 1839-40. 'The Scottish Patriot', 1839-41. 'The Social Pioneer', 1839. 'The Southern Star', 1840-1. 'The Star of the East', 1838. 'The True Scotsman', 1838-42. 'The Working Bee', 1839. 'The Western Vindicator', 1839-42. SECONDARY WORKS (a) General studies R. G. Gammage, 'History of the Chartist Movement' (first published 1854, 2nd ed., with plates, index, etc., 1894). Mark Hovell, 'The Chartist Movement' (1918). Julius West, 'History of the Chartist Movement' (1920). H. U. Faulkner, 'Chartism and the Churches' (1916). F. E. Rosenblatt, 'The Social-Economic Aspects of the Chartist Movement' (1916). Asa Briggs, 'Chartism re-considered', in M. Roberts (ed.), 'Historical Studies 11: Papers Read before the Third Con­ ference of Irish Historians' (195~). J. T. Ward (ed.), 'Popular Movements, c. 1830-1850' (1970). * Papers which, although not Chartist publications, contain much more than the usual amount of Chartist news in the years indicated. 297 (b) Regional studies Asa Briggs (ed.), 'Chartist Studies' (1959). Leslie C. Wright, 'Scottish Chartism' (1953). Alexander Wilson, 'The Chartist Movement in Scotland' (1970). Bradford A. J. Peacock, 'Bradford Chartism 1838-40' (York, 1969). Birmingham Trygve Tholfson, 'The Origins of the Birmingham Caucus', in 'Historical Journal', ii 2 (1959). Trygve Tholfson, 'The Chartist Crisis in Birmingham', in 'International Review of Social History', iii 3 (1958). Conrad Gill, 'History of Birmingham', i, ch. xii. G. Edwards, 'Personal Reminiscences of Bir­ mingham and Birmingham Men' (18_77). Bristol John Cannon, 'The Chartists m Bristol' (Bristol, 1967). Coventry Peter Searby, 'Coventry Politics in the Age of the Chartists' (Coventry, 1965). Dundee Anon. 'Memoranda of the Chartist Agita­ tion in Dundee' (Dundee, 1889). Halzfax G. R. Dalby, 'The Chartist Movement in Halifax and District', in 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (1956). Leicester A. Temple Patterson, 'Radical Leicester' (1954). Robert Barnes, 'The Midland Counties Illuminator, a Chartist Journal', in 'Transac­ tions of the Leicestershire Archeo­ logical and Historical Society', xxv {1959). London I. J. Prothero, 'Chartism in London', in 'Past and Present', no. 44 (Aug 1969). 298 D.J. Rowe, 'The Failure of London Chartism', in 'Historical Journal' xi 3 ( 1968). D.J. Rowe, 'The London Working Men's Association and the People's Charter', in 'Past and Present', no. 36 (April1967). D.J. Rowe, 'Chartism and the Spitalfields Silk Weavers', in 'Economic History Review' (Dec 1967). Newcastle W. H. Maehl, 'Chartist Disturbances m North­ eastern England in 1839', in 'Inter­ national Review of Social History', viii ( 1963). Norwich J. K. Edwards, 'Chartism in Norwich', in 'York­ shire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research' (Nov 1967). Nottingham R. A. Church, 'Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town- Victorian Notting­ ham' ch. vi {1966). Peter Wyncoll, 'Nottingham Chartism' (Notting­ ham, 1966). Wales Edward Hamer, 'A Brief Account of the Chartist Outbreak in Llanidloes' (Llanidloes, 1867). See also bibliography in David Williams, 'John Frost'. Spen Valley (Yorks.) Frank Peel, 'The Rising of the Luddites, Chartists and Plug Drawers' (1880, reprinted 1970). (c) Biographies and biographical studies G. D. H. Cole, 'Chartist Portraits' (1940). William Lovett, 'The Life and Struggles of William Lovett in his Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge and Freedom' (1876). L. Barbara Hammond, 'William Lovett 1800-1877' (1922). G.]. Holyoake, 'Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens' (1881). 299 J. T. Ward, 'Revolutionary Tory: The Life of J. R. Stephens of Ashton-u-Lyne', in 'Transactions of the Lanes and Cheshire Antiquarian Society', lxviii