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BOOK REVIEW

Robert G. Hall, Voices of the People: Democracy and Chartist Political Identity 1830–1870, Merlin Press, Monmouth, Wales, 2007. pp. ix + 218. £15.95 paper.

The historiography of Chartism abounds in local studies to such an extent that one may doubt if much more will be learned about the movement by adding another example to the list. Thus, although Robert G. Hall focuses on Ashton-under-Lyne, he wisely relates his research to the wider concerns indicated by the title of his book. Historians, he writes, have usually studied Chartism in the large cities, but it was 'strongest in the small and medium-sized towns of the manufacturing and mining districts' (p. 1). As part of the conurbation based on Manchester, Ashton was one of these towns; indeed it was the most 'Chartist of all the factory towns' (p. 2). It offers an ideal basis for a 'micro-history' of the relationship between local and national aspects of the movement (p. 4).

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