ABSTRACT
Covers the momentous reforms in the British electoral system during the period from the Great Reform Act of 1832 to 1918 when women were given the vote. The study charts the series of Reform Acts right through the period, involving rather more attention to those important changes in the 1880s which are often underplayed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |17 pages
Origins
chapter |6 pages
Parliamentary Reform and the Historians
chapter |11 pages
Parliamentary Reform Agitation before 1832
part |18 pages
The ‘Great’ Reform Act of 1832
chapter |8 pages
Causes: External Pressure or Internal Collapse?
chapter |10 pages
Consequences: Change or Continuity?
part |39 pages
Redefining the ‘Privileged Pale of the Constitution’
chapter |8 pages
No ‘Final Solution’, 1832–65
chapter |11 pages
Towards Reform, 1865–68: The Causes of the ‘Leap in the Dark’
chapter |10 pages
Consequences: The Leap and its Aftermath, 1867–80
chapter |10 pages
Corruption, Reform and Redistribution, 1883–85
part |16 pages
Votes for Women – And Many More Men
chapter |8 pages
The Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1867–1914
chapter |8 pages
Towards Democracy, 1910–18
part |5 pages
Conclusion and Assessment
part |24 pages
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