Comments on: ‘The Second Reform Act of 1867: party interest or the road to democracy?’: A debate between Rt. Hon. The Lord Adonis and Kwasi Kwarteng MP

By: Sir Robert Peel and the modern Conservative party | The Victorian Commons

Sir Robert Peel and the modern Conservative party | The Victorian Commons — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:34:44 +0000

[…] of the most extraordinary acts of ‘political larceny’ in the 19th century – the 1867 Reform Act. Based almost entirely on adopting the policies of his opponents, in what was widely seen as a […]

By: Review of the Year 2018 | The History of Parliament

Review of the Year 2018 | The History of Parliament — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:03:10 +0000

[…] this year. We started the year with an alternative format for our annual lecture, hosting a debate between Lord Adonis and Kwasi Kwarteng MP about the 1867 Reform Act. In March we held an academic event which brought together some highlights from the 2017 conference […]

By: Lord Derby, ‘centre’ parties and minority government | The Victorian Commons

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:21:29 +0000

[…] reorganisation and transfer to the British Crown of Indian government (1858), and of course the Second Reform Act (1867), which enfranchised almost 1.2 million new voters, far more than the famous ‘Great’ […]

By: The Conservative Party and British Indians, 1975-1990 | The History of Parliament

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:01:08 +0000

[…] and Director of the History of Parliament, Dr Stephen Roberts during our annual lecture in January, ‘The Second Reform Act of 1867: Party interest or the road to democracy?’. We will be running our dissertation competition again in 2018, details will be posted on Twitter […]

By: Event review: Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, 22 March 2018. | The History of Parliament

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:02:44 +0000

[…] On 22 March 2018 the History of Parliament hosted an event in the Jubilee Room at the Palace of Westminster entitled, ‘Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century’. The event was another chance to hear some of the papers given at our conference in partnership with the University of Durham at the People’s History Museum in Manchester in November 2017. The conference was to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1867 Reform Act; this topic which was also the subject of our annual lecture. […]