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Title details for The Reform Acts 1832 and 1867 - British Heritage Database Reader-Printable Edition by R. H. Clark - Available

The Reform Acts 1832 and 1867 - British Heritage Database Reader-Printable Edition

by R. H. Clark
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The complete texts of two major Acts of Parliament, carefully re-set for this British Heritage Database edition to make them easy to access, read and search. After a prolonged struggle inside and outside Parliament, the “Great” Reform Act received the Royal Assent on June 7, 1832. Over 130 seats in the House of Commons were redistributed and the electorate was enlarged by about half. But this was only the first step on a century-long journey to parliamentary democracy: after 1832 all women and four-fifths of adult males in England and Wales were still excluded from the franchise. Although Chartists were soon campaigning for universal male suffrage, it was not until 1867 that Parliament again increased the electorate substantially in what Lord Derby famously described as “a leap in the dark”.

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