A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value. The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them what they wanted, in England and Wales.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Reform League
Commemorated ati
Reformers Tree
This mosaic is at a meeting of 9 footpaths and 7 outlying mosaics, in the sam...
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Councillor, Mrs M. Simmonds
Councillor and Vice-Chairman of the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
Levellers
A group of political radicals during the Civil War and the interregnum. Â Its origins lie in discussions within the New Model Army concerning soldiers' individual rights. Â They promoted:Â law reform,...
Match tax abandoned
I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches.  The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...
Jean Scott
Founder of The Finchley Society.  Andrew Behan found their website very informative: Jean Leslie Scott, The Finchley Society’s founder, was born on 21 March 1921 and lived in Finchley since her ch...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Science
C. Mansfield
Councillor and member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. Our image comes from Wikipedia's photo captioned 'First West Ham Borough Council, 1886-7'. This 'Councillor C...
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