On the Reform Act of 1832

Abstract

This entry examines a key moment for the British national imagination: the Great Reform Act of 1832 (or First Reform Act). It explores this crisis in aristocratic rule through the prisms of class, religion, geography, and the rise of the popular press, highlighting the concept of "representation of the people" enshrined by the act and the Age of Reform that it inaugurated.

Source: Carolyn Vellenga Berman, http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=carolyn-vellenga-berman-on-the-reform-act-of-1832
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