The Reform Bill [of 1832] was not calculated materially to improve the general composition of the Legislature. The good it has done, which is considerable, chiefly in this, that, by being so great a change, it has weakened the superstitious feeling against great changes. — John Stuart Mill, “Coleridge”
The Reform Acts — extending the right to vote
The Reform Act of 1832
- Terms of the 1832 Reform Act
- The Reform Act Crisis
- The Bristol 1832 Reform Bill Riots — a late-Victorian view
- The Duke of Wellington's Speech on Reform
- How Did the Tories Recover after the 1832 Reform Act?
- “That Great Reform Bill”: Chesterton's attack on the reform bill as the result of an an alliance between the landed aristocrats and the rich manufacturers
The Reform Act of 1867
- What was at stake and what was reformed in the 1867 Reform Act?
- The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park (1867)
- 14 Editorial cartoons in Fun about Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright and the Second Reform Bill (1866-67)
The Reform Act of 1884
- The 1884 Reform Act had a greater effect on Ireland than on Great Britain
- A political cartoonist looks at the effects the 1884 and 1885 acts on Tory candidates
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