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 [...]
In this term paper we will discuss about the social development of England during 1850-1868. H. T. Buckle, in his History of Civilization in England, published in 1859, wrote: 'The whole scope and tendency of modern legislation is, to restore things to that natural channel from which the ignorance of preceding legislation has driven them.' In the face of the [...]