Abstract
Abstract This translation of Malcolm Chase’s 2010 article explores the opportunity that biography provides to challenge dominant accounts of Chartism, incorporating women and familial networks. Biography has been a discursive strategy of central importance to labour history, challenging historians to communicate beyond the academic milieu, to overcome the restrictions of identity/class politics without dismissing still useful categories, and to go beyond the theoretical division between empiricism and a cultural history marked by the ‘linguistic turn’. Revealing the interplay between agency and social determination, biography can relate the intimate and the personal to the realm of the social and political.
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