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Land and Politics in England in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

F. M. L. Thompson
F. M. L. Thompson
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University College, London
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In every generation since the pace of economic and social change began to accelerate in the late-eighteenth century the wildest hopes, aspirations and fears of the previous generation have been realized. The revolutionary prospect of heeding the will of the people in the 1790's became the conservative measure of 1832. The terrifying demands of the Chartists were well on the way to enactment by 1885, and with the payment of M.P.s in 1911 were substantially achieved, apart from the silliest of all the demands, that for annual parliaments.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 15 , December 1965 , pp. 23 - 44
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1965

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