Why was Britain on the brink of a Revolution in 1830?
Following the Napoleonic war period and starting in the 1830s the workers of Britain began forming into Unions. Unions were perfectly legal in English law at the time, but the authorities did everything they could to put an end to them. The most famous case, concerning trade union membership in the 1830s, was that of the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Tolpuddle Dorsetshire England. http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/tol… The next wave of ‘protest’ came with the Chartists – the Chartists here in London were lead by their famous leader William Cuffey. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHc… Thus, from the 1830s on there began what became known as the rise of the Labour and Working Class Movement which ultimately lead to the creation of the Labour Party and in the late 19thC and early 20thC the Suffragettes etc. L
