Press Both nationally and locally a Chartist press thrived in the form of periodicals, which were important to the movement for their news, editorials, poetry and especially in 1848, reports on international developments. They reached a huge audience., Joan Allen and Owen R. Ashton, Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press (2005). The Poor Man's Guardian in the 1830s, edited by Henry Hetherington, dealt with questions of class solidarity, manhood suffrage, property, and temperance, and condemned the Reform Act 1832. The paper explored the rhetoric of violence versus nonviolence, or what its writers called moral versus physical force.Bob Breton, "Violence and the Radical Imagination", Victorian Periodicals Review, Spring 2011, 44#1 pp. 24–41.
press both nationally and locally a chartist press thrived in the form of periodicals which were important to the movement for their news editorials poetry and especially in 1848 reports on international developments they reached a huge audience joan allen and owen r ashton papers for the people a study of the chartist press (2005) the poor man's guardian in the 1830s edited by henry hetherington dealt with questions of class solidarity manhood suffrage property and temperance and condemned the reform act 1832 the paper explored the rhetoric of violence versus nonviolence or what its writers called moral versus physical forcebob breton "violence and the radical imagination" victorian periodicals review spring 2011 44#1 pp 24–41