John Frost (Chartist)
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John Frost was a prominent leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising.
Portrait of J. Frost
John Frost commemorative plaque, High Street, Newport
New 1980s headstone on John Frost's grave
Chartism
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Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom that lasted from 1838 to 1857 and was strongest in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It took its name from the People's Charter of 1
John Frost (Chartist)
…John Frost (25 May 1784 – 27 July 1877) was a prominent leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising. John Frost was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, where his father, also named John, kept the "Royal Oak Inn", in Thomas…
A photograph of the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, London, 1848
The meeting of the Birmingham Political Union on 16 May 1832, attended by 200,000
Chartists' riots
The national convention, meeting on Monday 4 February 1839, at the British Coffee House