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• Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts
• Wellington's speech against parliamentary reform: 2 November 1830
• The Parliamentary Debate on the introduction of the Reform Bill: 02 March 1831
• The case for parliamentary reform: 1 March 1831
• The Parliamentary Debate on the introduction of the Reform Bill: 02 March 1831 NB this is a VERY long document and will take at least 35 secs. to load.
• "Reform that you may preserve" Extracts from a speech by Thomas Babbington Macaulay, 2 March 1831
• Palmerston's speech on the Reform Bill: 3 March 1831
• Peel's speech on the Reform Bill: 3 March 1831
• Prorogation of Parliament, 22 April 1831
• Peel's Speech on Parliamentary Reform: 6 July 1831
• The Bristol Riots 29–31 October 1831
• Introduction of the Reform Bill to Parliament: 12 December 1831
• Sir Robert Inglis' speech in the Debate upon the Second Reading of the Reform of Parliament (England) Bill: 17 December 1831
• Peel's criticism of parliamentary reform: 17 December 1831
• Clumber House in a State of Defence
• The Reform Bill: parliamentary representation; from a speech made by TB Macaulay on 28 February 1832.
• The Duke of Wellington and reform: 17 May 1832
• Earl Grey and parliamentary reform: 17 May 1832
• Place's letter to Hobhouse 1832 (Reform Act Crisis)
• Peel's opposition to the Reform Act 1832
• Benjamin Disraeli's A Year at Hartlebury or The Election
• An election in the Midlands (George Eliot)
• Lord Monmouth after the Reform Bill from Disraeli's Coningsby
• Lord John Russell's "finality" speech: 20 November 1837
• Electoral Morality in the Reformed Era
  

• The Constitution before the 1832 Reform Act
• The Catholic Association
• Wellington's 1830 ministry
• The 1830 General Election
• Background to the Reform Act
• Political Unions
• The Birmingham Political Union
• Tory arguments against reform
• Whig reasons for reform
• The Reform Act: Table of Events
• The Campaign for the 1832 Reform Act
• The Reform Act Crisis
• The Reform Act Crisis: model essay
• Terms of the Reform Act
• Thomas Attwood
• Francis Place
• William Cobbett
• Thomas Whittaker (1808 — 27 March 1878) -- a Nottingham rioter
• Michael Brock The Reform Act of 1832

Model essay “Reform was the dynamic that drove the political process in Britain up to 1850”. Discuss with reference to more than one movement for political, social or economic reform in this period.
The British beehive, 1867

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