TY - JOUR
AU - Chase, Malcolm
AB - DIGITAL FORUM Digital Chartists: Online Resources for the Study of Chartism Malcolm Chase Something about the character of the internet is reminiscent of Chartism – sprawling, undisciplined, democratic and open yet dominated by a handful of leading players. Both might be characterised as ‘indeed the IDEA of the age’, to quote Samuel Smiles on Chartism. It is with quiet satisfaction, therefore, that one notes the role of a prominent Chartist, Robert Kemp Philp, in the evolution of the internet. Philp, who – among other things – probably wrote the text of the 1842 National Petition (Chartism’s largest, signed by 3.3 million people) turned in the 1850s to writing popular reference works. The most notable of these was the sprawling compendium Enquire Within th Upon Everything, of which the 125 and final edition appeared in 1973. The computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet, relates that as a teenager he was particularly fascinated by Enquire Within: and, conceiving the world-wide web as a similar portal on to all existing knowledge, Berners-Lee named his pioneering prototype of the Internet ENQUIRE in its honour. In view of this auspicious genealogy, have the Chartists been well- served, digitally speaking? This survey 
TI - Digital Chartists: Online Resources for the Study of Chartism
JO - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.3366/E135555020900085X
DA - 2009-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/digital-chartists-online-resources-for-the-study-of-chartism-i4opNv0tLB
SP - 294
EP - 301
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -