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Age of Britain, age of the middle class: the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (formed 1801) and the "mother of the nation", Queen Victoria (1837-1901).

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  • There has to be a complete bibliography at the end of every article.
  • You will often compile data of the 'general knowledge' variety from different sources, e.g. dates of birth or plot summaries (in your own words!) of literary works. In these cases stating the sources in the bibliography suffices.
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What's hot these days? - Session 2: Political Representation

Representation		Parliament	House of Lords	House of Commons	40 Shilling Freeholders
Protests		Rotten boroughs	Thomas Paine	Common Sense	The Rights of Man
Reform and Agitation		Catholic Emancipation Act (1829)	First Reform Bill (1832)	People's Charter (1838)	Chartism
		Second Reform Bill (1867)	Ballot Act (1872)	Third Reform Bill (1884)	Local Government Act (1888)
Female Suffrage		NUWSS (1896)	WSPU (1903)	John Stuart Mill	The Subjection of Women

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