breadth study Flashcards
Swing Riots … following poor harvests … -> … men executed, … transported & further … imprisoned
1830
1828-30
19
500
600
Days of May …
1832
NUWSS … formed … under …
Nat Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
1897
Millicent Fawcett
WSPU formed … by …
1903
Emmeline Pankhurst
WSPU e.g. … demonstration of … women in Hyde Park, Emily Davison’s bombing LG’s house …
1908
over 250,000
1913
WSPU abandoned militancy for war effort calling for …
‘Right to Serve’
Corn Laws …
1815
Second French Rev … replaced … with … promoting reappearance reform groups e.g. … led by …
1830
Bourbon King Charles X
Louis Phillipe
Birmingham Political Union
Thomas Attwood
… women undertook war work including … in industries
~1.6mil
800,000
ideas about respectability excluding … males from vote in 1884
40%
(1867 Act) while … strongly opposed reform successor … in … supported & … party’s next leader
PM Viscount Palmerstone
Earl Russell
1865
William Gladstone
Russell & Gladstone introduced reform bill … intended to reduce borough franchise … to …
(Mar) 1866
£10
£7
following collapse Whig bill 1866 Con gov led by … & … introduced alternative reform bill = successful
PM Lord Derby
Chancellor Disraeli
… 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 …
early 1880s
1872
Lord Salisbury allowed Reform Act … to pass as long as Redistribution Act … also passed as per …
1884
1885
‘Arlington Street Compact’
ROPA (1918) enfranchised men over …, men over … on active service & female householders over …
21
19
30
first female MP …
Nancy Astor
ROPA (1918) tripled electorate enfranchising … men & … women
5mil
8mil
Dec 1918 election Lab share of vote rose from … to … & seats … to …
7%
22%
42
60
ROPA (1918) aimed to create uniform single-member constituencies of … inhabitants
~70,000
ROPA (1918) num seats dominated by mc electorate rose from … to …
48
almost 200
ROPA (1832) uniform franchise system for boroughs & counties rather than e.g. …
open boroughs
potwalloper boroughs
corporation boroughs
ROPA (1832) electorate rose from … to …
~490,000
800,000
ROPA (1832) … householder qualification
£10
ROPA (1832) abolished … borough seats from towns with low pop
145
1832 = num ‘royal placemen’ reduced from … to …
over 100
60-70
1832 = … new borough seats
44
Franchise Act (1884) = vote to …
male householders & £10 lodgers in counties
1884 = electorate rose by … to …
84%
5.5mil
after … election MPs from industrial & commercial backgrounds outnumbered landowners in HofC for first time
1885
Redistribution Act (1885) = … seats redistributed
~160
1885 = roughly 1 seat for pop …
50,000
… 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
Redistribution Act (1885) = num county seats in Lancashire rose … to … & Yorkshire … to …
8
23
10
26
before 1832 = only … out of … constituencies had pop over …
43
202
1,000
Disraeli focused on seat representation in … = further … seats for counties
ROPA (1867)
25
1885 = Liverpool now … seats, London’s inc. … to …
9
22
55
… … inspired creation of Yorkshire Association
1729
Christopher Wyvill
sinecures e.g. …
Office of the Groom of the Stole
Groom of the Wardrobe
Burke presented wide-ranging bill for econ reform in … but unable to secure passage
(Mar) 1780
when appointed paymaster in Rockingham’s gov … Burke established specific salary …
1782
£4,000/yr
(Burke) Civil Service Act abolished … royal & gov. sinecures saving …
130
£70,000
Victoria = forced to appoint … PM in … despite personal dislike
Gladstone
1880
… = appointed Ramsey MacDonald … as Cons had lost majority
George V
Jan 1924
… = … Peel unable to return enough seats, Melbourne returned
William IV
1834
… gave in to Irish Home Rule in …
George V
1914
Victoria relied heavily on advice of … early in reign
PM Lord Melbourne
1832 = … males had vote
nearly 1 in 5
‘crown constituencies’ e.g. royal dockyard towns …
Chatham & Portsmouth
1832 = … rotten boroughs abolished e.g. …
56
Aldeburgh, Dunwich & Old Sarum
… William dismissed …’s gov. & appointed Tory Robert Peel -> although won additional … seats not enough for Tory majority
1835 (dismissed 1834, election 1835)
Grey
80
from … voters’ names had to be on electoral register = cost …
1832
1 shilling/person
Con Nat Union … & Nat Lib Federation …
1867
1877
local level groups e.g. … & …
Liberal Liberation Society
Conservative Primrose League
particularly after … loyalty to agreed party policies & leadership expected of MPs
1867
no gov with ruling monarch support lost election …
18th or early 19th century
following Melbourne’s resignation … Victoria invited Peel to form gov
1839
… Victoria dismissed … = angry sent foreign dispatches without explicit consent
1851
Viscount Palmerstone
although George III appointed … in … despite personal dislike, dismissed … in … & supported .. with funds
Lord North PM
1770
Fox North coalition
1783
Pitt
… Parliament Act
1911
