But the masters also had the whole force of the Government on their side; the conspiracy laws could be applied so as effectively to paralyse the action of the unions, and the obviously unjust severity with which the law was applied in some particular instances only had the effect of embitter...
However, Hurren argues that the policies pursued by the union were relatively unremarkable until the launch of the crusade at the beginning of the 1870s. The three leading "crusaders" in the union were Althorp's grandson, the fifth Earl; the conservative member of parliament for South ...
The Royal Alexandra Infirmary was built between about 1894 and 1902, to designs by the architectT. G. Abercrombie. Above is a detail of the ends of two of the ward blocks with their semi-circular sun balconies. The square tower to the right housed the WCs and wash-hand basins. These ‘...
Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these ...
During the Victorian period, the House of Commons became the centre of government, the House of Lords lost power (though it remained influential until the Parliament Act of 1911), and the monarchy transformed into a symbol of the nation. The House of Commons consisted of about 600 men called...
United Kingdom - Early and mid-Victorian Britain: The implementation of the liberal, regulative state emerging after the Napoleonic Wars involved a number of new departures. The first of these concerned the new machinery of government, which, instead of
And since the right to vote was not universal, but rather depended on land ownership, voting members of Parliament had no interest in repealing the Corn Laws. Who suffered? The artificially high corn prices encouraged by the Corn Laws meant that the urban working class had to spend the bulk...
The State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2019 (Vic), introduced to Parliament on 27 May 2019, contains numerous important changes to Victoria's stamp duty and land tax laws. In an effort to fill the large gap left by dwindling stamp duty receipts in a falling property market, theState Ta...
… In a 1906 survey of the first large cohort of Labour Party Members of Parliament, 16 percent claimed that Dickens was the author or work which had influenced them the most strongly, a percentage point behind Ruskin, but two in front of the Bible. …引自The Victorian novel and its ...
the result of the Chartism protest movement, calls for a more democratic system including six points: the right to vote for men age 21 and older; no property qualification to run forParliament; annual elections; equal representation; payment for members of Parliament; and vote by secret ballot...