What if … the 1832 Great Reform Act hadn’t happened?
At one key stage the Great Reform Bill was passed by a majority of just one. What would have happened if the Bill had instead been defeated at that stage? … Read the full post »
Read about the 1832 Great Reform Act which introduced major change to how Britain’s elections are run.
At one key stage the Great Reform Bill was passed by a majority of just one. What would have happened if the Bill had instead been defeated at that stage? … Read the full post »
Nick Robinson has returned to the radio for a second series of his short portraits of British Prime Ministers and in the list this time is Earl (Charles) Grey … Read the full post »
Earlier this year I spoke in the National Liberal Club alongside the History of Parliament Trust’s Philip Salmon. … Read the full post »
The central thesis of Philip Salmon’s Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties 1832-1841 is that the details of the 1832 Great Reform Act matter because they had large and significant effects on the development of national politics and the embryonic modern party system. … Read the full post »
Soon after becoming Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg promised “the most significant programmes of reform by a British government since the 19th century…. the biggest shake-up of our democracy since 1832.” … Read the full post »
Philip Manow’s slim book, published in 2008 and newly available in an English translation, attempts to deploy theory to explain questions of political imagery and architecture. … Read the full post »
Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, Viscount Howick and Baron Grey, was the Prime Minister who oversaw the Great Reform Act of 1832, which overhauled the country’s parliamentary electoral system and was the culmination of two years of intense political crisis. … Read the full post »
William Wyndham Grenville, later the first Baron Grenville and more commonly known to historians as Lord Grenville, was born on 25 October 1759. … Read the full post »