Chartist Steps upper level, Friars Walk, Newport
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Chartist Steps upper level, Friars Walk, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 14 Sep 2018
Text in view (from the top downwards) includes THE SIX POINTS of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER 1. A VOTE FOR EVERY MAN 2. THE BALLOT https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4822555 to the lower level Chartist Steps. Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain which existed from 1838 to 1858. It took its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which called for six reforms to make the political system more democratic. On November 4th 1839, local trader, politician and activist John Frost led a march of 3,000 Chartists into the centre of Newport, where several Chartists had been arrested and were being held in the nearby Westgate Hotel. Troops protecting the hotel opened fire on the marchers, killing about 20 people and wounding 50 more.
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