The Decade of Reform

Parliamentary Divisions

• Public Opinion?

"Reform"--institutions

Whigs + Radicals vs. Tories

• Parliamentary Reform
• Municipal Reform
• Church Reform

Market Issues/Protective Legislation

Some Whigs vs. Other Whigs

Some Radicals vs. Other Radicals

Some Tories vs. Other Tories

• Factory Acts
• Poor Laws

Parliamentary Committees

• Select Committee of Commons
• Royal Commission

Edwin Chadwick (Lord Ashley)

Poor Law Amendment Act 1834

• Reduce "out-relief'
• Universal Workhouses
• Remove unwed fathers financial obligation
• Conform to markets
• Central administration
• "less eligibility"

Anatomy Act of 1832

• Burke and Hare
• Corpsehouses

Abolition of Slavery 1833, 1838

• Baptists in Jamaica
• William Knibb 1803-1845

Municipal Corporations Act 1835

Ecclesiastical Commission 1835-36

Civil Marriage, Births, Deaths 1837

The Triumph of Reform