Parliamentary Reform 1785-1928 (Questions and Analysis in History Series)

HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES PREFACE......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
1 THE UNREFORMED PARLIAMENT......Page 12
Source C: parliamentary seats (1801).......Page 24
Source E: Sir Robert Inglis MP in the House of Commons (1 March 1831).......Page 25
Worked answer: Question 2......Page 26
Source G: from the debate on Mr Flood’s parliamentary reform motion (4 March 1790).......Page 27
Source I: Charles Grey MP introducing a parliamentary reform petition from the Society of Friends of the People (2 May 1793).......Page 28
Worked answer: Question 2......Page 29
2 THE GREAT REFORM ACT......Page 31
Source A: Thomas Babington Macaulay MP, speaking in the debate on the first Reform Bill (2 March 1831).......Page 42
Source C: the Edinburgh Review, a Whig journal (June 1831).......Page 43
Source D: the Quarterly Review, a Tory journal (February 1831).......Page 44
15 March 1831......Page 45
Source H: the Westminster Review, a Tory journal (1833).......Page 46
Worked answer: Question 4......Page 47
3 CHARTISM: THE DEMAND FOR UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE......Page 49
Source C: ‘The Designs of the Chartists and their Probable Consequences’ published in the Leeds Mercury (3 August 1839).......Page 62
Source D: Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Classes in England (1845).......Page 63
Source F: Ben Wilson, The struggles of an old Chartist: what he knows and the part he has taken in various movements (1887).......Page 64
Worked answer: Question 3......Page 65
Source H: ‘W.R.’, an informer, reporting on a Chartist meeting in Bradford, to the Home Secretary (28 May 1848).......Page 66
Source K: H.D.Traill (ed.), Social England: a record of the progress of the people (1897).......Page 67
Worked answer: Question 2......Page 68
4 DISRAELI AND THE SECOND REFORM ACT......Page 70
Source B: Robert Lowe, MP, speaking against the first reading of the Reform Bill (13 March 1866).......Page 82
Source D: Disraeli introducing the Reform Bill (18 March 1867).......Page 83
Source F: Quarterly Review (December 1867).......Page 84
2. HODGKINSON’S AMENDMENT AND THE COMPOUND-HOUSEHOLDER......Page 85
Source I: The Leader of the Opposition supports Hodgkinson’s Amendment.......Page 86
Source L: Disraeli......Page 87
Source M: Disraeli, speaking on Monday 20 May 1867.......Page 88
Worked answer: Question 3......Page 89
5 THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF POLITICS, 1867–1900......Page 90
Source B: Robert Blake, Disraeli (1966).......Page 102
Source E: T.A.Jenkins, Disraeli and Victorian Conservatism (1996)......Page 103
Source F: E.J.Feuchtwanger, Gladstone (1975).......Page 104
Source H: Roy Jenkins, Gladstone (1995).......Page 105
Source I: Jonathon Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (1995).......Page 106
Source J: School Board election poster (1876).......Page 107
Source L: letter from Joseph Chamberlain to The Times (13 April 1880).......Page 108
Source M: Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill to Lord Salisbury (3 April 1884).......Page 109
Worked answer: Question 3......Page 110
6 THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY......Page 111
Source B: The Times (17 January 1884).......Page 121
Source E: Conservative MPs in England.......Page 122
Worked answer: Question 1......Page 123
Source F: William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890).......Page 124
Source I: George Bernard Shaw, The Transition to Social Democracy’ in Fabian Essays (1889).......Page 125
Worked answer: Question 1......Page 126
7 THE DECLINE OF THE MONARCHY AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS......Page 127
Source B: letter from Queen Victoria to Lady Ely (21 September 1879).......Page 139
Source D: the Duke of Connaught to Queen Victoria (11 April 1880).......Page 140
Source F: Gladstone’s account of his meeting with the queen, accepting her invitation to form a government (23 April 1880).......Page 141
Worked answer: Question 4......Page 142
Source G: Lord Lansdowne, the Unionist (Conservative) leader in the Lords, speaking against the budget (22 November 1909).......Page 143
Source J: Lord Halsbury speaking against the Parliament Bill in the House of Lords (20 July 1911).......Page 144
Worked answer: Question 3......Page 145
8 VOTES FOR WOMEN......Page 147
Source A: Mrs Pankhurst, speaking from the dock at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court (1908).......Page 160
Source D: letter from three members of the Cambridge branch of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, printed in the Cambridge Daily News (9 June 1913).......Page 161
Source E: reply from four members of the NUWSS, printed in the Cambridge Daily News (11 June 1913).......Page 162
Source F: Ada Nield Chew, a radical suffragist, writing in Cotton Factory Times (9 March 1917).......Page 163
Source I: Lord Selborne writing to Lord Salisbury (25 August 1916).......Page 164
Worked answer: Question 2......Page 165
NOTES AND SOURCES......Page 167
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 173
SECONDARY TEXTS......Page 174
INDEX......Page 177