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6 days ago · This entry examines the Great Reform Act of 1832 (or First Reform Act) as a key moment for the British national imagination. It explores this crisis in aristocratic rule through the prisms of class, religion, geography, and the rise of the popular press.
May 3, 2024 · Miles Taylor (in 'Empire and parliamentary reform : the 1832 reform act revisited') examines an extraordinary omission from histories of the Reform Act: the imperial considerations that underlay much Tory opposition to the legislation, namely the charges that Scottish and Irish representation would be increased to the detriment of the English ...
May 4, 2024 · Price: £425.00. Reviewer: Dr Jon Parry. Pembroke College, Cambridge. Citation: Dr Jon Parry, review of The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-1832, (review no. 945) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/945. Date accessed: 4 May, 2024.
May 5, 2024 · These “rotten” boroughs were eventually eliminated by the Reform Bill of 1832. As parliamentary sessions became more regular from the 15th to 17th centuries (legislation in 1694 eventually required that Parliament meet at least once every three years), a class of professional parliamentarians developed, some of whom were used by the king to ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Initially a moderate Whig, he voted for the emancipation (parliamentary enfranchisement) of Roman Catholics in 1829 and for the Reform Bill of 1832, but subsequently he became more conservative.
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The realities of political life come alive, from the young girl who names her kittens after the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill (Lord Brougham and Lord Grey) to conversations in Richard Cobden’s drawing room. The impression left is that the relationship between gender and politics in 19th-century Britain was a complex and complicated one.
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Apr 24, 2024 · The Second Reform Act – more formally, An Act Further to Amend the Laws Relating to the Representation of the People in England and Wales (30 & 31 Vict., c. 102) – no doubt extended the work of the First Reform Act of 1832.
