Butterfield named the habit of writing history from its ending in 1931, and it is still the default shape of a textbook. Brinton built the template that produces it, and made it useful by recording where his own cases refused to fit.
Chartism failed on every attempt it made and five of its six demands are law. The outcome arrived up to eighty years late and was credited to other campaigns, which is what happens to a claim with no scheduled resolution date.