New Left Review I/1, January-February 1960
John Saville
Chartism
Chartist Studies. Edited by Asa Briggs. MacMillan. 1959. 42s.
Between the wars there was little new writing on the Chartist movement. The standard texts—Dolleans, Beer, Rosenblatt, Slosson, West and Hovell—had all appeared before 1920. They were mostly written, putting the matter in broad terms, within the Fabian tradition; with, that is, a good deal of of sympathy for the movement as a whole, a marked tendency to applaud Lovett and denigrate O’Connor, a too-simple economic framework for the political story, and a lack of comprehension of its radical-revolutionary implications.
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