Seminar 11
Seminar Questions:
- How did the reform process affect the contents of the 1832 Reform Act?
- Was popular pressure a factor in the passage of the Reform Act?
- 'The Reform Act was in essence a conservative measure'. Discuss.
- ‘The Reform Act did little to widen the franchise in Britain’. Discuss.
- Was the Reform Act a watershed in British party political and electoral history?
The Great Reform Act
See O’Gorman, The Long Eighteenth century and Evans, The forging of the modern state
M Brock, The Great Reform Act
J Cannon, Parliamentary Reform
J Milton-Smith, 'Earl Grey's cabinet and the objects of Parliamentary reform', Hist Journal, 1972
P Mandler, Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform
D C Moore, The Politics of Deference
D C Moore, 'Concession or Cure', Hist. Journal, 1966
D C Moore, 'The Other Face of Reform', Victorian Studies, 1961
F O'Gorman, Voters, Patrons and Parties
D Beales, ‘The Electorate Before and After 1832’, Parliamentary History, 1992
F O’Gorman, ‘The Electorate Before and After 1832: A Reply’, Parliamentary History, 1993
J A Phillips, 'The Many Faces of Reform: the electorate and the Great Reform Act', Parliamentary History 1982
J A Phillips, The Great Reform Bill in the boroughs 1818-1841
E A Smith, Reform or Revolution?
James Vernon, Politics and the People