Class Schedule
Week 7 (March 3-9)
Monday,
March 4
Topic of Discussion:
The Age of Reform I:
The End of the Old Constitution
Readings:
Lord John Russell on
the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828)
The Bishop of Armagh
Opposes Catholic Emancipation (1829)
The Commons Debate
on the First Reform Bill: Lord John Russell, T.B. Macaulay, and Sir Robert Peel
(1832)
Sir Robert Peel, The
Tamworth Manifesto (1834)
Arnstein, pp. 3-18
Wednesday,
March 6
Topic of Discussion:
The Age of Reform II:
Popular Reform Movements
Readings:
Daniel O'Connell, Speech
at Tara (1843)
The Corn Laws: Two
Rival Petitions and Richard Cobden on the Food Tax (1841)
Address of the National
Anti-Corn Law League Council (1843)
The Six Points of the
People's Charter (1837)
The Chartists and the
Anti-Corn Law League (1842)
Speech by Thomas Attwood
Presenting the Chartist National Petition to the House of Commons (1839)
Arnstein, pp. 32-50
Friday,
March 8
Topic of Discussion:
The Age of Reform III:
The Expanding Brief of the Victorian State
Reading:
Arnstein, pp. 50-61
Food
for Thought for Week 7
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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