Documents on the Nineteenth Century United Kingdom Constitution

Volume I: Reform

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction

Part 1. 1776 - 1832

1. John Wilkes, 'Parliamentary Reform'

2. John Cartwright, Take Your Choice! Representation and Respect, Imposition and Contempt

3. William Pitt, 'Reform of the Franchise'

4. William Pitt, 'Reform of the Franchise'

5. Thomas Spence, The Constitution of Spenconia,

6. Jeremy Bentham, Parliamentary Reform Catechism

7. William Cobbett, To the Journeymen of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

8. Lord John Russell, 'Parliamentary Reform'

9. Sir Robert Peel MP, 'Parliamentary Reform'

10. Duke of Wellington, 'Parliamentary Reform'

11. Henry Hunt, 'Rights of Women'

12. Reform Act, 1832

Part 2. 1832 - 1884

13. Petition Agreed to at the Crown and Anchor meeting, 28 February 1837

14. George Grote, 'The Ballot'

15. Marion Reid, 'A Plea For Woman'

16. Benjamin Disraeli, 'Reform'

17. Edward Baines, 'Borough Franchise Bill'

18. William Gladstone, 'Borough Franchise Bill'

19. William Gladstone, 'Representation of the People Bill'

20. Mrs Bodichon Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women

21. J. S. Mill, 'Suffrage'

22. Reform Act, 1867

23. George Eliot, '(Fictitious) Address to Working Men, by "Felix Holt"'

24. Thomas Hare, 'Machinery of Representation'

25. The Ballot Act, 1872

26. Millicent Fawcett, 'Women's Suffrage'

27. W. E. Gladstone, 'Representation of the People Amendment Bill'

28. Representation of the People Act 1884

Part 3. 1884-1928

29. Albert Venn Dicey, 'Ought the Referendum to be Introduced into England?'

30. Mrs Pankhurst, 'The Importance of the Vote'

31. John Humphreys, 'A Study in Methods of Election'

32. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, 'Reference to the People Bill'

33. Earl of Crewe, 'Reference to the People Bill'

34. Violet Markham, 'Woman's Sphere'

35. Joseph Compton-Rickett, 'Representation of the People (Women) Bill'

36. Philip Snowden, 'Representation of the People (Women) Bill'

37. Conference on Electoral Reform, Letter from Mr. Speaker to the Prime Minister

38. Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918

39. Representation of the People Act 1918

40. Sir William Joynson Hicks, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

41. Brigadier-General Sir George Cockerill, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

42. Ellen Wilkinson, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

43. Margaret Bondfield, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

44. Viscountess (Nancy) Astor, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

45. Stanley Baldwin, 'Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill'

46. Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928, Polling Districts and Places

47. Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own'

Index