The Shaping of Modern Britain Companion Website

CONTENTS

A: BRITISH GOVERNMENTS, 1780-1914

B: PARLIAMENT, PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND GENERAL ELECTIONS

B.i PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND THE FRANCHISE

B.i.1 Major proposals for parliamentary reform, 1783–1830

B.i.2 Major proposals for parliamentary reform, 1852–1866

B.i.3 Parliamentary Reform Act (England & Wales), 1832

B.i.4 Parliamentary Reform Act (Scotland), 1832

B.i.5 Parliamentary Reform Act (Ireland), 1832

B.i.6 Irish Franchise Act, 1850

B.i.7 Parliamentary Reform Act (England and Wales) 1867 (Second Reform Act)

B.i.8 Parliamentary Reform Act (Scotland), 1868

B.i.9 Parliamentary Reform Act (Ireland), 1868

B.i.10 An Act to Amend the Law relating to procedure at parliamentary and municipal elections, 1872

B.i.11 Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883

B.i.12 Parliamentary Reform Act, 1884 (Third Reform Act)

B.i.13 Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885

B.i.14 Parliament Act, 1911

Bii Parliament and Parties, the Electorate and Elections

B.ii.1 A note on parties and political groupings in the House of Commons, 1784–1832

B.ii.2 Estimates of party strength, 1783-1832

B.ii.3 Approximate size of the electorate, 1831–1911

B.ii.4 Impact of the Reform Acts on the approximate size of the electorate, 1831-1911

B.ii.5 The Changing Composition of the House of Commons in the nineteenth century

B.ii.6 General Election Results, 1832-1910

B.ii.7 Voters and numbers of seats uncontested in parliamentary elections, 1784-1831

B.ii.8 Votes Cast at General Elections, 1832-1910, and Unopposed Elections

C: The Growth of Government

C.i Factory and Industrial Legislation

C.ii Local government and public health

C.iii Poor Law

C.iv Major developments in education provision

D: The Economy

D.i Government Income and Taxation

D.i.1 Government income statistics, 1781–1915

D.i.2 Government expenditure statistics, 1781–1915

D.i.3 Balance of Government Income and Expenditure

D.i.4 Direct taxation

D.ii: National Income and Trade

D.ii.1 Distribution of national income in Britain, 1801–1901

D.ii.2 Imports, 1784–1856

D.ii.3 Exports, 1784–1856

D.ii.4 Value of British exports to particular areas, 1784–1856

D.ii.5 Value of British overseas trade, 1855–1914

D.ii.6 Imports of raw cotton, 1780–1914

D.ii.7 Exports of cotton piece goods, 1815–1869

D.ii.8 Iron and steel exports, 1780–1870

D.iii Transport

D.iii.1 Railway development, 1830–1870

D.iii.2 The development of railway passenger traffic in the UK, 1851–1870

D.iii.3 Shipping: Numbers and Tonnage, 1790-1914

D.iii.4 Shipping: Numbers of Ships built and registered in the United Kingdom, 1814-1914

D.iii.5 Road Vehicles in use, 1904-14

D.iv Employment, Wages & Living Standards

D.iv.1 Numbers employed in the Textile Industries, 1835-1907

D.iv.2.1 Size of Lancashire cotton firms in 1841

D.iv.2.2 Occupations in the Later Nineteenth Century

D.iv.3.1 Index of Money Wages in Britain, 1790-1850

D.iv.3.2 Average indices of price and wage movements, 1788–1850

D.iv.3.3 Estimates of adult male full-time earnings in various categories, 1781–1851

D.iv.3.4 Estimates of proportions of working-class income allocated to particular expenditure, 1788-1862

D.iv.3.5 Index of UK retail prices and of real wages, allowing for effects of unemployment, 1850-1900

D.iv. 3.6 Annual Percentage Growth Rates in Cost of Living and Real Wages, 1856-1913

D.iv.3.7 Index of UK Real Wages and Cost of Living, 1880-1914

D.iv.3.8 Average prices of wheat, 1780–1870

D.v. THE POOR LAW

D.v.1 Expenditure on poor relief in England and Wales, 1783–1913

D.v.2 Indoor and outdoor relief, 1850–1914: England and Wales

D.vi The Value of the Pound

E: POPULATION

E.i Population of the UK, 1781–1911

E.ii English Regions

E.ii.1 English population growth by region, 1801–1911

E.ii.2 Changing regional balance of population, 1801–1911

E.iii Changing Urban Population, c1780-1911

E.iv Birth & Death Rates

E.iv.1 Baptisms and birth-rates in England and Wales, 1783–1914

E.iv.2 Burials, death-rates and infant mortality in England and Wales, 1783–1914

E.v Age structure of the British population

E.vi Emigration

E.vi.1 Movement of UK citizens to non-European ports

E.vi.2 Numbers and proportions of emigrants from Ireland, 1842-1919

E.vii Distribution of the British Labour Force, 1801–1911

F: FOREIGN AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS

F.i Diplomatic treaties and alliances, 1780-1914

F.ii Wars involving the United Kingdom, 1780–1904

F.iii Major colonial acquisitions, 1780–1914

F.iv Landmarks in colonial constitutional development

G: RELIGION

G.i Timeline of religious developments, 1780–1914

G.ii Estimates of Church Membership, 1800–1914

G.iii The growth and social composition of British Methodism, 1781–1871

G.iv Non-residence in the Church of England, 1810–1850

G.v Disparities of clerical income in the Church of England

G.vi Church of England Dignitaries, 1780–1914

G.vii The religious census of England and Wales, 1851

H: IRELAND

H.i Timeline of Key Events