Royal assent to the Reform Act #OnThisDay 7 June 1832 gave some northern towns representation in Parliament for the first time. The Act’s limitation of the franchise to the middle classes and the Whig government’s refusal to go further led in part to the emergence of Chartism later in the decade.
John Stuart Mill presents first mass petition to Parliament calling for women to get the vote #OnThisDay 7 June 1866 www.parliament.uk/about/living...
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4 June 1848: Ernest Jones tells a 15,000 strong crowd at Bonner’s Fields in East London, ‘Only organise and you will see the green flag [of Chartism] floating over Downing Street’. Arrested for sedition, he spends the next two years in prison.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/ernest-jones...
Printing Types: their History, Forms & Use.
A Study in Survivals.
Explore 360+ original illustrations and specimens spanning nearly 500 years.
www.c82.net/printing-typ...
#OnThisDay 1849 the Commons discussed - and rejected - Joseph Hume's 'Little Charter' of electoral reforms (household franchise, the ballot, triennial Parliaments & more equal distribution of seats): api.parliament.uk/historic-han...
Also on parliamentary reporting we have this on the history of the reporters' gallery, where the catering arrangements included 'a bottle of whisky on tap, a loaf or two of stale bread, and a most nauseous-looking ham’: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...
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We've just been catching up on @histparl.bsky.social 's director @jhdavey.bsky.social talking about the history of Hansard. For more on the history of parliamentary reporting in the 19th century, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/r...
And more #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release from 'snippet view':
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=zys...
Sample Census 1966
books.google.co.uk/books?id=fyo...
Consolidated list of Govt publications, 1925:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=cyd...
Digital edition of Daniel Updike’s history on printing and typography
Continuing our series on parliamentary buildings, Dr Kathryn Rix looks at the accommodation provided for the newspaper journalists who reported on the proceedings of the nineteenth-century House of…
Today we take it for granted that parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. In the Victorian era, however, there was no ‘official’ record. In this blog to end Parliament Week, Dr P…
I just backed @polypartist.bsky.social
LOOSE CANNONS: a history of freethinking humanist rebels! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Really enjoyed talking to @mattchorley.bsky.social yesterday about all things Hansard. You can listen here (roughly 1hr8mins in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Matt takes legendary TV producer John Lloyd to PMQs and explores the world of Hansard.
