The Decade of Reform
- 1832 Reform bill
- 1833 Irish Church Act
- 1833 Factory Act
- 1834 Poor Law Reform
- 1835 Municipal Corporations act
- 1836 Ecclesiastical Commission
- 1837 Civil Marriages/Births
- 1833/1838 Slavery abolished in British
Empire
Abolition of Slavery 1833, 1838
- Evangelicals
- William Wilberforce
- Abolition of Slave Trade 1807
- Baptists in Jamaica
- William Knibb 1803-1845
- Slavery in Yorkshire?
Whig Reform and the Working Class
- L10 Householder
- Ten Hours Movement
- Children
in Mills
- Women in mills: reproduction
- Factory Act of 1833. 12 hrs 13-18; 9 under
13
Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
- Reduce "out-relief'
- Universal Workhouses
- Remove unwed father's financial
obligation
- Conform to markets
- Central administration
- "less
eligibility"
Anatomy Act of 1832
- Burke and Hare
- Corpsehouses
Queen Victoria
1837-1901
- The Triumph of Reform
- Place of Working Class?
Hungry Forties: depression
The People's Charter 1837:
Chartism
- Manhood suffrage
- Secret ballot
- Payment of MPs
- Abolition of property
qualification
- Equal constituencies
- Annual parliamentary elections
- (Women's suffrage?)
Anti-Corn Law League 1838
Benefits of repeal:
- Prosperity in manufacturing
- Relieve the suffering poor
- More efficient agriculture
- World peace
John Bright
Quaker moralism
Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
Chartist
petition
Kennington
Common
The Irish Famine
Landlord-tenant relations
- Cultural differences
- Absenteeism
- Value of improvements
- Security of tenure
Population Growth
- The potato
- Sub-division of property (cf .
enclosure)
- Poverty
- Eviction
Famine
Robert Peel
PM 1841-46
- Local relief
- Public works
- Corn
depots
- Repeal of Corn Laws
Whigs 1846-
Lord John Russell PM
Soup Kitchens
Hospitals
Workhouses
1848
Memory of the famine
Memories of Hard Times
Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist 1837-39
Hard Times 1845
- Factory Owners
- Utilitarian education theories
- McChoakumchild
Irish memory: Hard
Times
