‘Tom Scriven has written an important, rewarding, and wide-ranging book...’
Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University, Labour History Review, vol 84 issue 1

'All in all, Scriven’s book sheds light on the ways in which Chartists educated themselves and shared their knowledge with their working class audiences and readerships in order to help them reform their habits and gain the respectability that would earn them the Charter. [...] Popular Virtue wonderfully shows how the Chartists strived to promote individual improvement as a collective, rather than individualistic, way of making Victorian industrial society more liveable for the labouring poor as a whole.'
Miranda

Introduction
1 A ‘Radical Underworld’? The infidel roots of Chartist culture
2 Politics and everyday life in early Chartism
3 From insurrection to the ‘little republic of the home’
4 Medicine, popular science, and Chartism’s improvement culture
5 Communal self-improvement after the ‘disasters of the Strike’
6 The fragmented legacies of Chartist moral politics
Conclusion
Index