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What was the annual circulation of newspapers in the 1770's? | 12,000,000 | 0%
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How many people - mostly tenant farmers - were enfranchised by the Chandos Amendment? | 130,000 | 0%
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When was the Glorious Revolution? | 1688 - 1689 | 0%
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The first ever motion of parliamentary reform | 1776 Wilkes Motion | 0%
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A failed attempt to push through parliamentary reform by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger dissuading him from any future attempts | 1785 Reform Bill | 0%
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When was the Habeas Corpus Act first suspended? | 1794 - 1795 | 0%
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When was the Habeas Corups Act suspended for the second time? | 1817 - 1818 | 0%
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An act which forbade meetings of more than 50 people for the purpose of discussing reform if unapproved by a magistrate | 1817 Seditious Meetings Act | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts banning meetings of more than 50 people for the puspose of discussing reform if unapproved by a magistrate | 1819 Seditious Meetings Act | 0%
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An unsuccessful motion in Parliament for the redistribution of 100 seats by Lord John Russell | 1822 Russell Motion | 0%
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A wave of romantic nationalist revolutions in Europe | 1830 Revolutions | 0%
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In what year was the Liberal Party formed? | 1859 | 0%
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How many people were prosecuted for treason and sedition in the late 18th century during Pitt's Terror? | 200 | 0%
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How many seats were there in the House of Lords around 1785? | 214 | 0%
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How large was the electorate in terms of number of people around 1785? | 250,000 out of 8,000,000 | 0%
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How many people had been executed across France by July 1794? | 30,000 | 0%
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How many seats did the King control around 1785 and of what type were they? | 30 Borough seats | 0%
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How many radicals remained in the House of Commons after the 1832 Great Reform Act? | 30 to 40 | 0%
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How many parliamentary radicals were there by the 1820's? | 44 | 0%
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What was the peak membership of the London Corresponding Society | 5,000 (1,000 being active) | 0%
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How many seats were there in the House of Commons around 1785? | 558 | 0%
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A 1701 act that barred Roman Catholics and their spouses from the succession and made the monarch seek parliamentary approval before engaging in war | Act of Settlement | 0%
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Two 1800 acts uniting the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Acts of Union | 0%
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A 1790 pamphlet by Richard Price favourably comparing the French and Glorious Revolutions | A Discourse on the Love of Our Country | 0%
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Those Liberals who opposed the 1866 Reform Bill led by MP Robert Lowe | Adullamites | 0%
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Agents employed to induce others to break the law so they may be convicted, used systemically by Lord Sidmouth, Home Secretary between 1812 and 1822 | Agents Provocateurs | 0%
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A government office founded in 1793 to surveil foreign and domestic individuals whom pose a threat to the country | Alien Office | 0%
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A 1768 pamphlet by Joseph Priestley arguing for individual liberty and limitations on state interference | An Essay on the First Principles of Government | 0%
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How many independent MP's were there in the House of Commons around 1785? | Approximately 200 | 0%
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What percentage of seats were contested before the Great Reform Act? | Approximately 30% | 0%
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What percentage of seats in the House of Commons were patronised around 1785? | Approximately 50% | 0%
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What percentage of seats were contested in 1868? | Approximately 66% | 0%
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Those skilled working class members deemed respectable enough to be enfranchised | Artisans | 0%
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A highly successful 1792 association founded by placeman John Reeves promoting loyalism to the government and suppressing radical societies | Association for Preserving Liberty and Property | 0%
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A group of associations promoting parliamentary reform founded in the wake of the formation of the Yorkshire Association | Association Movement | 0%
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A 1792 association founded by the Advanced Whigs pushing for parliamentary reform that was disbanded in 1795 due to a conservative Whig reaction against it | Association of the Friends of the People | 0%
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An 1830 - 1831 Belgian liberal and nationalist revolt against Dutch rule | Belgian Revolution | 0%
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A 1689 act that; abolished the prerogative of the monarch to rule by decree, compelled the monarch to consult with Parliament, and made such that elections, and speech and debate in Parliament ought to be free | Bill of Rights | 0%
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A society formed in 1769 in support of John Wilkes and freedom of speech | Bill of Rights Society | 0%
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A local Liberal association founded in 1865 and refounded in 1868, successful in building a mass membership and securing all three Birmingham seats for the Liberals in the 1868 and 1874 general elections | Birmingham Liberal Association | 0%
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Thomas Wooler's 1819 working class, 4 pence a week satirical radical journal | Black Dwarf | 0%
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An 1817 planned march of 5,000 textile workers from Manchester to London to petition the prince regent over the state of the cotton industry that was violently dispersed | Blanketeers March | 0%
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Those with wealth and influence who controlled seats in the House of Commons and by extension the MP's who held those seats | Borough Monger | 0%
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Riots in response to the failure of the second reform bill with rioters looting and burning within the city, successfully holding it for three days | Bristol Riots | 0%
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Extraparliamentary popular radicals unconcerned by the direction taken by the French Revolution, with about 80 clubs by the mid 1790's | British Jacobins | 0%
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A borough in which only the owner of a plot of land laid out at the borough's formation could vote | Burgage Borough | 0%
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A 1782 act that transferred the revenues of the Crown Estate to Parliament in exchange for a fixed civil list | Burke's Civil List Act | 0%
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A 1782 bill that abolished a number of sinecures | Burke's Establishment Bill | 0%
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Liberal Tories and followers of Canning and his successors calling for reform | Canningites | 0%
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A gentleman's club formed in 1832 to coordinate Tory activity after defeat over the Great Reform Act that became the organisational headquarters of the Conservative Party | Carlton Club | 0%
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An 1829 act allowing for Catholic's to sit in the Houses of Parliament | Catholic Relief Act | 0%
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An 1820 revolutionary conspiracy to murder Lord Liverpool and his cabinet by the Spencean Philanthropists | Cato Street Conspiracy | 0%
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A meeting of party politicians, and a term used disparagingly by Benjamin Disraeli and the Conservatives to compare populist American parties and the Birmingham Liberal Association | Caucus | 0%
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A Tory amendment to the Great Reform Act that enfranchised tenants-at-will paying annual rent of £50+, often under the influence of Tories | Chandos Amendment | 0%
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A highly radical Whig politician and MP whom strongly supported both the American and French revolutions | Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806) | 0%
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A Yorkshire clergyman and reformer who founded the Yorkshire Association in 1779 | Christopher Wyvill (1740 - 1822) | 0%
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Loyalist clubs formed to promote loyalism during the wars with France | Church and King Clubs | 0%
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A 1782 act that excluded those under government commission or contract from sitting as MP's | Clerke's Act | 0%
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The circumstance of people meeting and discussing issues of the day in coffee houses | Coffee House Society | 0%
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1799 and 1800 acts passed during Pitt's terror preventing workers from uniting to act in restraint of trade (strike, form unions), repealed in 1824 on the work of Francis Place and MP Joseph Hume | Combination Acts | 0%
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An organisation founded in 1842 by William Lovett and others seeking middle class support for the Chartist cause | Complete Suffrage Union | 0%
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A phrase coined by historian Thomas Carlyle describing the poor living and working conditions of the working class, and anticipating an explosion in particular amongst the northern working class | Condition of England Question | 0%
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A classic study by Friedrich Engels written between 1842-44, published in German in 1845, and in English in 1887, heavily critical of the effects of industrialisation on the health and condition of the working classes particularly in southern Lancashire | Condition of the Working Class in England | 0%
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Constituency organisations that formed during and between the 1835 and 1837 elections to organise and coordinate the Conservative Party | Conservative and Constitutional Associations | 0%
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The location of a 1795 open air meeting of the London Corresponding Society attracting 100,000 people | Copenhagen Fields | 0%
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An 1815 protectionist law on corn requiring domestic corn to reach a price of 80 shillings a quarter before foreign corn could be imported | Corn Law | 0%
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A 1661 act preventing those who do not swear the Oath of Supremacy from taking public office | Corporation Act | 0%
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A borough in which only members of the borough corporation could vote | Corporation Borough | 0%
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Groups formed to correspond with one another and revolutionary groups in France in support of radicalism | Corresponding Societies | 0%
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A chronic shortage of cotton in Lancashire as a result of the US blockade on Confederate ports | Cotton Famine | 0%
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A 1782 act that deprived Customs and Excise Officers, and Post Office workers of the vote as they were deemed to be under government influence | Crewe's Act | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts toughening the sentences for authors of blasphemous or seditious writings and enabling magistrates to confiscate them | Criminal Libel Act | 0%
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An unsuccessful 1809 bill proposing parliamentary reform with strong support from Francis Burdett | Curwen's Reform Bill | 0%
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A Catholic and Irish nationalist elected as MP for Clare in 1828 though unable to take his seat due to his religion, who campaigned for Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the 1800 Acts of Union | Daniel O'Connell (1775 - 1847) | 0%
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A series of mass riots over the stalling of the third reform bill prompting fears of a potential revolution | Days of May | 0%
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A 1789 French revolutionary document espousing the right to; liberty, equality, property, security, resistance to oppression, and freedom of belief and of speech | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | 0%
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An 1802 coup planned by an Irish colonel possibly involving an Irish rebellion, northern uprising, and French invasion, for which Despard and five others were executed | Despard Conspiracy | 0%
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Members of Christian denominations outside the Church of England, excluding the Roman Catholic Church | Dissenters | 0%
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Tory Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 and briefly in 1834, who failed to unite the party | Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1853) | 0%
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A 1780 parliamentary motion that passed 233 votes to 215 opposing the influence of the crown under George III | Dunning Motion | 0%
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Whig Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834, and a long-term prominent reformer | Earl Grey (1764 - 1840) | 0%
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A movement opposed to the expenditure of the salaries of placeman, pensioners, and claimants on the crown, as vote buying and a shoring up of royal power | Economical Reform | 0%
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A Rockinghamite Whig and MP from 1765 to 1794 who spoke out strongly against the French Revolution | Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) | 0%
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An 1820 publication by James Mill promoting democracy against rule by a monarchy or aristocracy | Essay on Government | 0%
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Nickname of Lord John Russell given to him in 1837 | Finality Jack | 0%
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An 1839 petition with over 1 million signatures written by the National Convention of Delegates on the advice of Thomas Attwood and his Birmingham Political Union | First Chartist Petition | 0%
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A bill introduced by Lord John Russell, passing its first reading by 1 vote only to be defeated in the committee stage in April prompting the resignation of the government and the calling of a general election | First Reform Bill | 0%
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The term used to refer to those who could vote in County seats before the Great Reform Act | Forty Shilling Freeholders | 0%
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The Foxite son of a baronet, and radical leader in the House of Commons | Francis Burdett (1770 - 1844) | 0%
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A radical reformer, campaigner, and education advocate | Francis Place (1771 - 1854) | 0%
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One of four liberal Tories appointed by Lord Liverpool to government between 1822 - 23 who served as Chancellor from 1823 to 1827 and Prime Minister from 1827 to 1828 in a Canningite-Whig coalition | Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich (1782 - 1859) | 0%
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A borough in which only those whom owned freehold property of a certain rateable value could vote | Freeholder Borough | 0%
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A borough in which only those with freeman status could vote | Freeman Borough | 0%
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The name for the revolutionary government of France | French National Convention | 0%
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One of four liberal Tories appointed by Lord Liverpool to government between 1822 - 23 who served as Foreign Secretary from 1822 - 1827 and Prime Minister of a Canningite-Whig coalition from 1827 until his death the same year | George Canning (1770 - 1827) | 0%
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1780 Anti-Catholic riots initiated by the head of the Protestant Association Lord George Gordon in the wake of the 1778 Papists Act from which John Wilkes defended the Bank of England | Gordon Riots | 0%
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An 1832 act that enfranchised male owners or occupiers of property rated at £10+, with the addition of £50+ rent payers in the County's, redistributed seats from most rotten and pocket boroughs, and introduced voter registration | Great Reform Act | 0%
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A heavily defeated 1797 reform bill by Earl Grey, the last such bill until Thomas Brand's 1810 reform bill | Grey's 1797 Reform Bill | 0%
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A 1679 act mandating trial within a stated period of time | Habeas Corpus Act | 0%
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A group of radical reformist clubs of mostly working and middle class people named for an English Civil War parliamentarian | Hampden Clubs | 0%
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A radical and associate of William Cobbett known for their showmanship in public addresses to the working class | Henry Hunt (1773 - 1835) | 0%
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The right to vote based on being the head of a household | Household Suffrage | 0%
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Disturbances and skirmishes in July 1866 arising out of a procession organised by the Reform League being blocked by police | Hyde Park Riots | 0%
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A 1763 issue of the North Briton newspaper criticising the King's speech regarding the peace with France after the Seven Years War as being the words of the Earl of Bute rather than his own | Issue 45 | 0%
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A liberal advocate of political reform, economist, and utilitarian associate of Jeremy Bentham | James Mill (1773 - 1836) | 0%
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The founder of Utilitarianism and writer of his 'Parliamentary Reform Catechism' advocating democracy, published in 1817 | Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) | 0%
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A founder of the Society for Constitutional Information and of the first Hampden Club in 1812 | John Cartwright (1740 - 1824) | 0%
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The party agent appointed by Benjamin Disraeli who established the Conservative Central Office in the 1870's and united party institutions, formulating success in the 1874 general election | John Gorst (1835 - 1916) | 0%
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A radical politician and MP for Middlesex from 1768 - 1769, and 1774 - 1790 | John Wilkes (1725 - 1797) | 0%
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A radical MP and mover behind the repeal of the Combination Acts | Joseph Hume (1777 - 1855) | 0%
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A political writer and radical supporter of the American and French revolutions, whose work provided a foundation for Utilitarianism | Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804) | 0%
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An 1830 revolution in France that overthrew the Bourbon monarchy establishing the House of Orleans, and enforcing popular sovereignty | July Revolution | 0%
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Those Tories able to enter political life after the end of the Whig Oligarchy with the 1762 dismissal as Prime Minister of the Whig Duke of Newcastle and appointment of the Tory Earl of Bute by George III | King's Friends | 0%
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A collection of letters published in the Public Advertiser between 1769 and 1772 attacking the King and Parliament, now widely attributed to Philip Francis | Letters of Junius | 0%
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Constituency organisations that began to appear in the 1830's to organise and coordinate the Liberal Party | Liberal or Reform Associations | 0%
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An 1866 bill introduced to Parliament by William Gladstone to moderately extend the franchise that was defeated by the Conservatives and Adullamites | Liberal Reform Bill | 0%
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Those Liberal candidates and MP's with a genuinely working class background | Lib-Lab | 0%
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An agreement of moderate; Whigs, Radicals, and Irish Nationalists of the House of Commons in February 1835 to coordinate opposition against Peel's Conservative Party | Lichfield House Compact | 0%
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A society founded in 1792 by Thomas Hardy promoting universal manhood suffrage, annual elections, and the abolition of rotten boroughs, through pamphleteering and petitioning | London Corresponding Society | 0%
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A working class organisation founded by William Lovett, Francis Place, and Henry Hetherington in 1836 seeking to propogate ideas of greater working class political influence | London Working Men's Association | 0%
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Earl Grey's son-in-law and leader of the reform committee for the Great Reform Act | Lord Durham (1792 - 1840) | 0%
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A Whig politician, prominent reformer, member of the reform committee during the Great Reform Act, and Prime Minister from 1846 - 1852, and 1865 - 1866 | Lord John Russell | 0%
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Tory Prime Minister between 1812 and 1827 | Lord Liverpool (1770 - 1828) | 0%
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Prime Minister between 1770 and 1782 who was forced out by a motion of no confidence and George III after the British defeat in the American War of Independence at Yorktown | Lord North (1732 - 1792) | 0%
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Anti-industrial protesters particularly textile workers who rioted and broke machinery, with a resurgence between 1815 and 1817 | Luddites | 0%
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The 1768 shooting by troops of people protesting the imprisonment of John Wilkes for libel | Massacre of St. George's Field | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts that empowered the prosecution in treason trials | Misdemeanours Act | 0%
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The Chartist wing led by William Lovett advocating for constitutional methods of achieving reform | Moral Persuasion Chartism | 0%
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An 1835 act that made town councils into elected bodies with an electorate consisting of all male ratepayers | Municipal Corporations Act | 0%
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An association founded in 1877 on the work of the Birmingham Caucus and radical Joseph Chamberlain to further organise the still somewhat disparate Liberals around radicalism | National Liberal Association | 0%
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An organisation formed in 1831 by Francis Place to protest the failure of the second reform bill | National Political Union | 0%
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An 1867 federation of Conservative working men's associations and Conservative and Constitutional Associations which helped to further organise Conservative Party activity | National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts that extended taxes on newspapers and pamphlets and ended the loophole of unstamped publications | Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act | 0%
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A 1798-99 act passed during Pitt's terror restricting the publication and distribution of newspapers, and requring publishers to be registered | Newspaper Publications Act | 0%
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A radical Chartist newspaper founded in 1837 by Feargus O'Connell of his position 'peaceable if we can, forcibly if we must' | Northern Star | 0%
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Established regimes in need of reform | Old Corruption | 0%
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A constituency before the Great Reform Act with a wide franchise such as Preston where all adult males could vote | Open Constituency | 0%
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Radicals within Parliament consisting of Independent Radicals and Foxites (Advanced Whigs), with seats particularly in Westminster, Southwark, Norwich, and the Midlands | Parliamentary Radicals | 0%
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A publication begun in 1774 by John Almon that was the first to publish parliamentary debates | Parliamentary Register | 0%
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The financial inducement and/or influence of aristocrats and magnates (mostly peers) over the composition of the House of Commons | Patronage | 0%
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A dissident Conservative faction led by Sir Robert Peel founded in 1846 over his and some other Conservative support for free trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws | Peelites | 0%
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A person in receipt of and reliant on a royal or government pension | Pensioner | 0%
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A failed 1817 armed uprising of 200 - 300 men in Derbyshire seeking to march on London to demand reform | Pentrich Rising | 0%
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An 1838 document that demanded; annual parliaments, universal manhood suffrage over 21, equal electoral districts, payment of MP's, removal of property qualifications for MP's, and secret ballots | People's Charter | 0%
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An 1819 meeting of 60,000 to 80,000 people in Manchester being addressed by Henry Hunt and Richard Carlile, demanding reform, charged by cavalry to disperse them, killing 18 and injuring hundreds | Peterloo Massacre | 0%
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A Utilitarian based movement arguing for representative government | Philosophical Radicalism | 0%
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A moderate Whig reform movement represented by the likes of Lord John Russell and the Edinburgh Review | Philosophic Whigism | 0%
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The Chartist wing led by Feargus O'Connor and James Bronterre O'Brien advocating for mass meetings, public demonstrations, and if necessary, violence for achieving reform | Physical Force Chartists | 0%
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Repressive measures instituted by Pitt's government during the wars with France in the mid to late 1790's | Pitt's Terror | 0%
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A person appointed to office as a result of and in exchange for mutual support between them and the crown or ministers | Placeman | 0%
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A number of riots and strikes of working class people in mostly industrial areas over wage cuts and the failure of the second Chartist petition | Plug Plots | 0%
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A borough under the control of one individual | Pocket Borough | 0%
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The adaptation of one's actions to take advantage of a situation for personal or group benefit | Political Opportunism | 0%
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William Cobbett's working class radical and unstamped pamphlet sold from 1816 for twopence | Political Register | 0%
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An 1834 act that mandated residence within a workhouse to be eligible for poor relief | Poor Law Amendment Act | 0%
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The economic depression in the UK from 1812 - 1823/22 caused by mass dembolisation of soldiers and sailors into the labour market, a legacy of high taxation, and an end of government war contracts | Post-Napoleonic Depression | 0%
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A borough in which only those heads of house whom owned a hearth over which he could boil a pot and not currently receiving alms or poor relief could vote | Potwalloper/Householder Borough | 0%
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Loyalist riots in 1791 in Birmingham opposed to dissenters and Joseph Priestley, particularly his support for the French Revolution | Priestley Riots | 0%
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An unofficial Conservative organisation open to both men and women, that effectively adapted the party to the growth of democracy | Primrose League | 0%
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An 1858 act that abolished the property requirements for MP's | Property Qualification for Members of Parliament Act | 0%
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A person seeking fundamental political change | Radical | 0%
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A 1792 loyalist pamphlet by Archdeacon William Payley | Reasons for Contentment | 0%
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The parallel act to the 1867 Reform Act which redistributed 45 seats with under 10,000 voters, 25 to the County's, and 20 to the Borough's | Redistribution of Seats Act | 0%
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The name for 2,000 local branches of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property that received considerable support from Anglican groups | Reeve's Societies | 0%
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A 1790 pamphlet by Edmund Burke heavily critical of the French Revolution, written in response to Richard Price's 1790 pamphlet 'A Discourse on the Love of Our Country' | Reflections on the Revolution in France | 0%
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A gentleman's club formed in 1836 to oppose the Conservative Party, and coordinate reformism and Whig and later Liberal activity that became the organisational headquarters of the Liberal Party | Reform Club | 0%
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A mostly working class organisation founded in 1864, supported by the trade union movement in campaigning for universal manhood suffrage and secret ballots | Reform League | 0%
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A mostly middle class organisation founded in 1864 that campaigned for male ratepayers to be given the vote, equal seat distribution, and secret ballots | Reform Union | 0%
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A period of violent upheaval during the French Revolution | Reign of Terror | 0%
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A campaigner for universal suffrage, press freedom, atheism, and equality between the sexes | Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) | 0%
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A dissenting minister and supporter of the American and French revolutions promoting the right of the British people to likewise remove their king | Richard Price (1723 - 1791) | 0%
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One of four liberal Tories appointed by Lord Liverpool to government between 1822 - 23 who served as Home Secretary from 1822 - 1830 and Prime Minister from 1834 - 1834 and 1841 - 1846 | Robert Peel (1788 - 1850) | 0%
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A Whig faction led by the Marquess of Rockingham, successor of the Duke of Newcastle, espousing the Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights | Rockinghamites | 0%
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A borough seat with very few voters such as Old Sarum, Wiltshire, or Dunwich, Suffolk | Rotten Borough | 0%
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A proclamation prohibiting seditious meetings and publications | Royal Proclamation of May 1792 | 0%
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A bill proposed by Lord John Russell that repealed the Test Act and Corporation Act | Sacramental Test Act | 0%
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A borough in which only those paying what was invariably meant as the poor rate could vote | Scot and Lot Borough | 0%
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An 1842 petition with over 3 million signatures organised by Feargus O'Connell | Second Chartist Petition | 0%
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An act passed in the House of Commons in September 1831 but rejected by the House of Lords resulting in protests particularly from Thomas Attwood's Birmingham Political Union | Second Reform Bill | 0%
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A 1795 act passed during Pitt's terror forbidding meetings of more than 50 people for the purpose of discussing reform if unapproved by a magistrate | Seditious Meetings and Assemblies Act | 0%
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A 1797 act passed during Pitt's terror making it a capital offence to insight servicemen into mutiny | Seduction from Duty and Allegiance Act | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts that empowered magistrates to confiscate arms | Seizure of Arms Act | 0%
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An early corresponding society founded in 1791 that waived entry and subscription fees, claiming 2,500 members in six months | Sheffield Constitutional Society | 0%
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A position requiring little or no work but providing financial benefit or status to its holder | Sinecure | 0%
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A number of 1819 acts meant to suppress meetings calling for parliamentary reform | Six Acts | 0%
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A group formed in 1780 by radicals John Cartwright and John Jebb calling for radical reform as published in Cartwright's 1776 book 'Take Your Choice' | Society for Constitutional Information | 0%
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An 1816 armed riot of radicals - particularly Spenceans - after a meeting addressed by Henry Hunt | Spa Field Riots | 0%
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Large-scale riots in 1830 in southern and eastern England sparked by harvest failures and mechanisation | Swing Riots | 0%
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An 1845 roman à thèse by Benjamin Disraeli highlighting the Condition of England Question and the gap in living standards between the classes | Sybil or The Two Nations | 0%
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A speech made by Sir Robert Peel in December 1834 setting out the ideals of conservatism and moderate organic reform | Tamworth Manifesto | 0%
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A 1673 act preventing those not taking Church of England communion from taking public office | Test Act | 0%
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A 1794 - 1807 document by Thomas Paine promoting deism and challenging many foundations of Christian belief | The Age of Reason | 0%
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A European late 17th and 18th century intellectual movement emphasising reason and individualism | The Enlightenment | 0%
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A radical newspaper founded in 1762 by John Wilkes and Charles Churchill in response to a pro-government newspaper of a similar name | The North Briton | 0%
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The term used to describe King George III for allowing the Tories to return to government and thus for representing all viewpoints as opposed to just the Whig's | The Patriot King | 0%
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William Hone's 1817 working class, radical publication | The Reformist Register | 0%
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Richard Carlile's 1819 working class radical publication | The Republican | 0%
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A 1791 document published by Thomas Paine defending the French Revolution, selling 200,000 copies in a couple of years | The Rights of Man | 0%
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Two pro-government newspapers founded in 1792 and 1793 respectively | 'The Sun' and 'The True Briton' | 0%
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An 1848 petition with around 2 million genuine signatures and millions more forgeries organised by Feargus O'Connell | Third Chartist Petition | 0%
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An amended bill introduced to the House of Commons in December 1831 held up in the House of Lords prompting Earl Grey to resign and the Duke of Wellington to be invited to form a government | Third Reform Bill | 0%
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A middle class, radical reformer, founder of the Birmingham Political Union, and pro Great Reform Act campaigner | Thomas Attwood (1783 - 1856) | 0%
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A cordwainer, reformer, and founder of the London Corresponding Society, unsuccessfully charged with high treason in 1794 for trying to form a national convention | Thomas Hardy (1752 - 1832) | 0%
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An Anglo-American radical and writer supportive of the American and French revolutions | Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) | 0%
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A radical who proposed common ownership of land vested in the parishes and universal male and female suffrage | Thomas Spence (1750 - 1814) | 0%
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Six trade unionists sentenced (though later commuted) to transportation to Australia under the Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 | Tolpuddle Martyrs | 0%
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A party originating with the Cavaliers and later in support of James II which had been locked out of power during the reigns of George I and II, much linked to the Church of England | Tory | 0%
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A 1795 act passed during Pitt's terror that expanded the definition of high treason | Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act | 0%
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Unsuccessful prosecutions of leaders of the London Corresponding Society in 1794 | Treason Trials | 0%
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A 1694 act that enforced the holding of elections to the House of Commons at least once every three years | Triennial Act | 0%
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A Right wing high Tory, Anglican faction, opposed to reform or Catholic emancipation | Ultras | 0%
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One of the 1819 Six Acts prohibiting the training of private armies | Unlawful Drilling Act | 0%
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A 1797 act passed during Pitt's terror outlawing the taking of unlawful oaths or belonging to a confederacy forbidden by law | Unlawful Oaths Act | 0%
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A term for that published through a legal loophole that exempted publications containing only news commentary from a tax designed to make radical papers prohibitively expensive | Unstamped | 0%
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An election committee relying on the work of voters rather than the wealth or influence of candidates | Westminster Committee | 0%
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An 1824 radical publication founded by Jeremy Bentham as the mouthpiece of the Philosophical Radicals to challenge the Tory 'Quarterly Review' and Whig 'Edinburgh Review' | Westminster Review | 0%
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A party originating with the Roundheads and later in opposition to the Catholic succession, much supportive of dissenters and the middle class | Whig | 0%
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Founder of the radical 'Political Register' and associate of Henry Hunt known for their showmanship in public addressed to the working class | William Cobbett (1763 - 1835) | 0%
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One of four liberal Tories appointed by Lord Liverpool to government between 1822 - 1823 who served as President of the Board of Trade from 1823 - 1827, being a strong advocate of free trade | William Huskisson (1770 - 1830) | 0%
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A radical founder of the London Working Men's Association, moral persuasion Chartist, and principal author of the People's Charter who abandoned Chartism after the failure of the second Chartist petition | William Lovett (1800 - 1877) | 0%
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An association promoting parliamentary reform that kick-started the wider Association Movement | Yorkshire Association | 0%
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