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Title: Britain Before Reform


1
Britain Before Reform
2
Englands Population
  • 1701 5 million
  • 1750 5.8 million
  • 1801 8.67 million
  • 1831 13.3 million

3
Aristocracy and Gentry
  • Not much change to 1815
  • More mannered after

4
Education
Eton
5
Harrow
6
Public School
  • Not private tutors, so public (with others)
  • Not state supported

7
Eton Uniform
8
Aristocratic Roles
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Idleness
  • Military
  • Church

9
Primogeniture
  • Eldest son inherits everything
  • Contractual tradition
  • Result fewer titled nobility

10
Middle Class
  • Home-centered
  • Women not to work

11
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Laboring Classes
  • Hand workers
  • Artisans
  • Agricultural workers
  • Servants

13
Poverty natural
  • Not degrading
  • Poor relief ok
  • Deserving vs. Undeserving poor

14
Poor Law
  • Elizabethan

15
Government
  • Mixed (one, many, few)

16
Sir William Blackstone
  • 1723-1780
  • Blackstones Commentaries

17
Who?
  • Property owners
  • Great landlords most influential
  • Industrialization brings discontent

18
Parliament in 1815
  • House of Lords
  • 360 members
  • House of Commons
  • 658 members (489 English)
  • County and Borough members

19
Rotton Borough
Old Sarum
20
Local Government
  • Counties and Boroughs

21
County
  • Lord Lieutenant
  • Justices of the Peace
  • Supervised roads
  • Licensed estates
  • regulated liquor
  • Set poor rates

22
Parishes
  • 10,000 in England and Wales
  • Vestry

23
Conclusion
  • Britain unbureaucratic and uncentralized
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