Many of the signatures on the Chartist petitions were spurious, but the numbers that were genuine must be easily great enough to qualify the movement as the most widely-supported in history before the twentieth century. Yet it failed. Though five of its six points have now become law, this outcome had little to do with Chartism. The effects that it [...]
In this term paper we will discuss about the political reforms that took place in Britain during 1850-1868. 'We live in anti-reforming times', wrote Gladstone in 1860. There is certainly a contrast between the heroic legislating of 1832-50 and the quiet consolidation of 1850-68. But there was no area in which the reforms of the previous period were not somewhat [...]
Here is a term paper on ‘Parliamentary Politics and the Second Reform Act’ especially written for school and college students. By comparison with the previous and still more with the subsequent period, the years between 1850 and 1868 knew a weak party system. Not only were the main parties ill-disciplined and at times divided, but until 1859 there existed two [...]