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  1. On 21 May 1838 an estimated 150,000 people assembled on Glasgow Green for a mass demonstration.

    There they witnessed the launch of the #People’s #Charter, a list of demands for political reform.

    The changes they called for included voting by #secret #ballot, #equal-#sized #constituencies and, most importantly, that all men should have the #vote.

    The Chartists, as they came to be known, were the first national #mass #working-#class movement.

    In the decade that followed, they collected six million signatures for their Petitions to Parliament: all were rejected, but their campaign had a significant and lasting impact.

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