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Disucss the conention that weak leadership, rather than any economic or political factor was the main reason for the failure of Chartism?
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To what extent was weak leadership rather than any political or economic factors, the main reason for the failure of Chartism? By Samuel Nurding Candidate Number: 0175 Centre Number: 65217 Word count: How close did Britain come to having a major working class movement cause a full-scale political revolution in mid-Victorian England? It's an intriguing question, and historians still argue the point. It is questionable that Chartism was doomed to fail from the beginning; nonetheless, weak leadership has been blamed by many historians as a vital cause for the disintegration of the Chartist movement in 1841, but to what extent is this true? Chartism was a movement established and to an extent controlled by working men in 1836 to achieve parliamentary democracy as a step towards social and economic reform. Probably the best way to interpret the implications of the movement is to appreciate that it emerged towards the end of a...
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