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IT is twenty-two years since the publication of the volume of Chartist Studies edited by Asa Briggs. That volume set a pattern for local studies of Chartism, and in the years since its publication very many such studies have appeared. It is clear to historians of popular movements that Chartism has to be studied in the localities in which most of the activity occurred. Nevertheless many people now feel that the focus has become rather too local, and that the pattern set twenty-two years ago has in some ways limited the areas to be studied.
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© 1982 Clive Behagg, John Belchem, Jennifer Bennett, James Epstein, Robert Fyson, Gareth Stedman Jones, Robert Sykes, Dorothy Thompson, Kate Tiller, Eileen Yeo
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Epstein, J., Thompson, D. (1982). Introduction. In: Epstein, J., Thompson, D. (eds) The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830–60. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16921-4_1
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