Chapter 7

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE

The Industrial Revolution--The Need for Parliamentary Reform--Manufacturing Centres Unrepresented in Parliament--The Passage of the Great Reform Bill--The Working Class still Unrepresented--Chartism--The Hyde Park Railings, 1866--Household Suffrage--Working-class Representation in Parliament--Removal of Religious Disabilities: Catholics, Jews and Freethinkers--The Enfranchisement of Women