Whigs and 1832 Reform bill

• "The Natural Party of Government"

Disraeli and Reform

• The 1867 Reform bill
• 1868 General Election

Gladstone's First Administration 1868-1874

Parliamentary Majority and Government

The Irish Issue

Reform

• 1868 Church of Ireland Disestablished
• 1870 Irish Land Act
• 1870 Education Act
• 1870 Civil Service Exams
• 1870 Oxford/Cambridge open to Nonconformists
• 1871 Army Officer Corps reformed
• 1871 Trade Unions Legalized
• 1872 Secret Ballot Introduced
• 1872 Licensing Act (regulating pubs)

Ireland

• Religion
• The Church of Ireland
• Disestablished 1868
• Landownership
• Landlord/tenant relationship
• Irish Land Act of 1870
  • Compensation for tenant improvements
  • Central gov't funds for tenant land purchase

  Rural violence against landlords

Education

Religion and Voluntary Action

• National Society (Anglican Schools)
• British & Foreign School Society (Nonconformist)
• Ragged Schools

1867 Reform Bill and citizenship

Whigs: a national religious settlement

Education Act of 1870

• School Boards
  • Funding--local property taxes
  • Religious education--scripture only
• National Schools
  • Funding--direct central government grants
  • Religious education--Anglican clergy
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Victorian Nonconformity

Church and Chapel

Social hierarchy

Dissent

Methodism

Politics: nowhere to go?

Disraeli on the march

Irish terrorism

Nonconformist division

1872 Licensing Act (pub hours)

1874 General Election

Given Gladstone's obsession with the Irish issue, why was his first administration dedicated to such a broad range of reforms?

What were the most important reforms of the Gladstone administration?

What were the elements of the Tory political revival?