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1832 ‘Great’ Reform Act – Passed into law in 1832 by the Whig government. This Act changed which parts of the country sent MPs to Parliament. It removed ‘rotten boroughs’ and gave new industrial towns MPs. It also gave many middle class men the right to vote.

1832 ‘Great’ Reform Act – Passed into law in 1832 by the Whig government. This Act changed which parts of the country sent MPs to Parliament. It removed ‘rotten boroughs’ and gave new industrial towns MPs. It also gave many middle class men the right to vote.

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On this page you will find information to help you work through our materials, and some links to other websites for more on the Political Reform in the nineteenth century.

The following pages are all to help you use the materials in the other sections of the website, understand the terms used, and put events into context:

- A glossary of terms used

The following resources have been used to create six distinct lessons that together for a unit to explore constitutional change and reform in the 19th century. The lessons are a model for the lessons that could be delivered, at the end of each lesson are suggestions as to how the lesson could be adapted for different abilities. It would be possible to extend all the model lessons into two lessons if you want to study this period in depth. This could be done by further study and analysis of the texts or incorporating some of the extended lesson suggestions into classroom activities.