On the Reform Act of 1832

Read this article about the Reform Act of 1832. Although the act itself did not achieve sweeping reform, it set the stage for further alteration of the political landscape.

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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