• Political Effects

    • Victorian Political History: An Overview

    •  Power, Politics, and Protest This interactive UK National Archives Learning Curve exhibition investigates the political changes that took place during the 19th century. Students examine nine different investigations that tell the story of the political history of Britain between 1800 and 1914.

    • Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838

    • Chartism

    • The Peterloo Massacre, 1819

    • Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819 

    • Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Fallacies of Anti-Reformers, 1824

    • Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Speech On The Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831 

    • Contemporary Views on the Reform Act, 1832

    • Parliamentary Reform

    • 1832 Reform Act

    • Terms of the 1832 Reform Act

    • The Bristol 1832 Reform Bill Riots -- a late-Victorian view

    • The Reform Act Crisis

    • Five Hundred Years of English Poor Laws, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor