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Swing Riots … following poor harvests … -> … men executed, … transported & further … imprisoned

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1830
1828-30
19
500
600

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Days of May …

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1832

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NUWSS … formed … under …

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Nat Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
1897
Millicent Fawcett

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WSPU formed … by …

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1903
Emmeline Pankhurst

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WSPU e.g. … demonstration of … women in Hyde Park, Emily Davison’s bombing LG’s house …

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1908
over 250,000
1913

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WSPU abandoned militancy for war effort calling for …

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‘Right to Serve’

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Corn Laws …

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1815

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Second French Rev … replaced … with … promoting reappearance reform groups e.g. … led by …

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1830
Bourbon King Charles X
Louis Phillipe
Birmingham Political Union
Thomas Attwood

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… women undertook war work including … in industries

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~1.6mil
800,000

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ideas about respectability excluding … males from vote in 1884

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40%

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(1867 Act) while … strongly opposed reform successor … in … supported & … party’s next leader

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PM Viscount Palmerstone
Earl Russell
1865
William Gladstone

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Russell & Gladstone introduced reform bill … intended to reduce borough franchise … to …

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(Mar) 1866
£10
£7

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following collapse Whig bill 1866 Con gov led by … & … introduced alternative reform bill = successful

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PM Lord Derby
Chancellor Disraeli

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… Joseph Chamberlain wanted to take control Lib Party & win gen election on platform radical reform noting untapped Lib support in counties esp among coal miners following Secret Ballot Act …

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early 1880s
1872

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Lord Salisbury allowed Reform Act … to pass as long as Redistribution Act … also passed as per …

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1884
1885
‘Arlington Street Compact’

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ROPA (1918) enfranchised men over …, men over … on active service & female householders over …

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21
19
30

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first female MP …

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Nancy Astor

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ROPA (1918) tripled electorate enfranchising … men & … women

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5mil
8mil

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Dec 1918 election Lab share of vote rose from … to … & seats … to …

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7%
22%
42
60

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ROPA (1918) aimed to create uniform single-member constituencies of … inhabitants

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~70,000

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ROPA (1918) num seats dominated by mc electorate rose from … to …

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48
almost 200

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ROPA (1832) uniform franchise system for boroughs & counties rather than e.g. …

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open boroughs
potwalloper boroughs
corporation boroughs

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ROPA (1832) electorate rose from … to …

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~490,000
800,000

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ROPA (1832) … householder qualification

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£10

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ROPA (1832) abolished ... borough seats from towns with low pop
145
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1832 = num 'royal placemen' reduced from ... to ...
over 100 60-70
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1832 = ... new borough seats
44
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Franchise Act (1884) = vote to ...
male householders & £10 lodgers in counties
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1884 = electorate rose by ... to ...
84% 5.5mil
30
after ... election MPs from industrial & commercial backgrounds outnumbered landowners in HofC for first time
1885
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Redistribution Act (1885) = ... seats redistributed
~160
32
1885 = roughly 1 seat for pop ...
50,000
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... PM Earl Grey ordered comprehensive review whole electoral system = found ... Eng towns e.g. ... had pop over ... but returned no MPs
1830 33 Manchester & Leeds 10,000
34
Redistribution Act (1885) = num county seats in Lancashire rose ... to ... & Yorkshire ... to ...
8 23 10 26
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before 1832 = only ... out of ... constituencies had pop over ...
43 202 1,000
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Disraeli focused on seat representation in ... = further ... seats for counties
ROPA (1867) 25
37
1885 = Liverpool now ... seats, London's inc. ... to ...
9 22 55
38
... ... inspired creation of Yorkshire Association
1729 Christopher Wyvill
39
sinecures e.g. ...
Office of the Groom of the Stole Groom of the Wardrobe
40
Burke presented wide-ranging bill for econ reform in ... but unable to secure passage
(Mar) 1780
41
when appointed paymaster in Rockingham's gov ... Burke established specific salary ...
1782 £4,000/yr
42
(Burke) Civil Service Act abolished ... royal & gov. sinecures saving ...
130 £70,000
43
Victoria = forced to appoint ... PM in ... despite personal dislike
Gladstone 1880
44
... = appointed Ramsey MacDonald ... as Cons had lost majority
George V Jan 1924
45
... = ... Peel unable to return enough seats, Melbourne returned
William IV 1834
46
... gave in to Irish Home Rule in ...
George V 1914
47
Victoria relied heavily on advice of ... early in reign
PM Lord Melbourne
48
1832 = ... males had vote
nearly 1 in 5
49
'crown constituencies' e.g. royal dockyard towns ...
Chatham & Portsmouth
50
1832 = ... rotten boroughs abolished e.g. ...
56 Aldeburgh, Dunwich & Old Sarum
51
... William dismissed ...'s gov. & appointed Tory Robert Peel -> although won additional ... seats not enough for Tory majority
1835 (dismissed 1834, election 1835) Grey 80
52
from ... voters' names had to be on electoral register = cost ...
1832 1 shilling/person
53
Con Nat Union ... & Nat Lib Federation ...
1867 1877
54
local level groups e.g. ... & ...
Liberal Liberation Society Conservative Primrose League
55
particularly after ... loyalty to agreed party policies & leadership expected of MPs
1867
56
no gov with ruling monarch support lost election ...
18th or early 19th century
57
following Melbourne's resignation ... Victoria invited Peel to form gov
1839
58
... Victoria dismissed ... = angry sent foreign dispatches without explicit consent
1851 Viscount Palmerstone
59
although George III appointed ... in ... despite personal dislike, dismissed ... in ... & supported .. with funds
Lord North PM 1770 Fox North coalition 1783 Pitt
60
... Parliament Act
1911

A-level History - Protest, agitation, and parliamentary reform (7 decks)

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