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1 giorno fa · In 1838, Chartists issued the People's Charter demanding manhood suffrage, equal sized election districts, voting by ballots, payment of MPs (so poor men could serve), annual Parliaments, and abolition of property requirements. Elites saw the movement as pathological, so the Chartists were unable to force serious constitutional debate.
2 giorni fa · In 1838, Chartists issued the People's Charter demanding manhood suffrage, equal-sized election districts, voting by ballots, payment of Members of Parliament (so that poor men could serve), annual Parliaments, and abolition of property requirements. The ruling class saw the movement as dangerous.
4 giorni fa · A 'holy and peaceful pilgrimage' was planned to Glasgow, where reformers of a similar frame of mind were gathering together, and while in Glasgow in May 1838 Attwood and Douglas had talks with representatives of the London Working Men's Association, which had drafted the People's Charter.
3 giorni fa · Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521823943X; 359pp.; Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human ...
5 giorni fa · The first Charter of King James I. [See p. 146.] James, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. to all to whom our present letters shall come, greeting. Whereas our beloved the mayor, and commonalty, and citizens of our city of London, time out of mind, have had, exercised, and ought, and ...
1 giorno fa · When, in 1838, the town was granted its charter, the parliamentary borough boundaries were taken as those for the new municipality. The churchwardens and select vestry of Edgbaston asked that their parish should be left out of the borough but nothing apparently came of the request.
6 giorni fa · Sir Keir Starmer set out the Labour Party's pitch to the people today with six key pledges. Despite the delivery of a man with a plan, the plan itself leaves an aftertaste of repetition and bland deja vu, delivering economic stability with tough spending rules so we can grow our economy and keep taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible.
