last min uk history

1786

Sinking fund

1 million of government money invested anually

Eden treaty

Pentrich rising

Derbyshire risinf

Spa field riots

1816

Public meeting my an extremist group led by henry orator hunt

Riots broke out lasting several hours

Flag of the french rev raised and these people went to london

Hunt later arrived and still gave his speech showing divisions in the whigs

Regency crisis

Splitting the whigs

George 3rd went mad

Fox wanted prince of wales to lead as he liked whigs

Pitt disagreed

Whigs didn’t like fox saying that as it was illogical

Evidence for backlash against the french revolution

APLPRL

Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers

APLPRL

1792

Grassroots movement giving propaganda to intimidate domestic reformers and enforce traditional values

Stats for numbers in radical socities

Population of 9 million

Biggest society LCS had 2k

Less than 0.1%

Days of May

1832 may

Bpu organised big protests

Who led reform bills

Lord john russel introduced the first second and third reform bill who was a whig

Poor law scandal

Andover workhouse was reported to be failing

Andover comitee founded

revealed gross negligence, confirming that the master was corrupt, the medical officer was too fearful to report him, and local guardians were secretly purchasing the bone dust the inmates produced at bargain prices.

About the forcibly eating bones due to starvation

1842

Period of econ downfall

Increase in costs for poor law

Between 1750 and 1817, the national "poor rate" grew from £1 million to £9.5 million.

Maximum workhouse capacity

300k-400k

Fabric union

GNCTU 1834

-tailors, silk weavers and shoemakers

-supported by cotton manufacturer robert owen

-16k members

-quickly collapsed

Mining unions

Miners association

-1842 and 60k members

-quickly collaosed

Challenges unions face after 1780

-new machinery

-new unskilled workforce of women and children

-ending of apprenticship rules

-repression of protests

-determination of employers

Cotton union

Union of operative cotton spinners

-1829 founded by john doherty

-tried to link scotland and lanchashire

-series of strikes but failed due to insufficient funds, time of econ downturn, difficult to get cooperation between areas

National union

National association for the protection of labour 1829

-70k members

-did not last after 1833

-strong element of protest about the threats

-different trades had different issues

-union activity associated with violence

Union uprising

Menthyr rising

1831

-coal and steel workers took to the streets of menthyr

-protesting against lower wages and less emplyment

-protest spread after the rising 

Union membership 1850

250k

Pitts faliures

Short term debt 7 million

Pitt died in 1806 and the french were not weak

Peace of amiens when pitt was not a minister

By 1839 how many parishes had the new poor law

14k

1795

Quota acts

1798

Income tax introduced on incomes over £60 up to 10%

1787

Hovering acts

Preventing smuggling

1794

Suspension of habeus corpus gave government the power to punish criminals

1799

Combo acts

1794

Treason trials set a precedant against radicalism

1795

Sedetious meetings act

Gave gov the power to limit large meetings

Name of king that appointed pitt

George 3rd

1793 naval supremacy

France had 291 vessels britain had 661

How much did britain spend in portugal and spain

18 million

How many special constables

65k

1817

Hampden club then made march of the blanketeers where they tried to march to london

Derbyshire rising 300 iron workers protesting

Impact of peterloo

15 killed and 400 wounded

1823 trade

Trade reciprocity act facilitates commercial agreements with other countries and lowered duty on importants

Maximum duty on imported goods was 30%

1825

Juries regulation act

1792 group

Society of the friends of the people for parlimentary reform

1826

Standardisation of the criminal justice act

1842 stats for child miners

1/3 of the mining workforce under 18

1839

Rebecca riots

Welsh riots saw toll booths attacked as a symbols against state authority

1836 stoke on trent

Downturn in pottery trade so 30k unemployed in stoke on trent

Opposition to the maynouth grant

150 tories voted against it in 1845

1.2 million signed a petition against the grant

Comission for ireland

Devon comission

Comission to sort out irish land

Name the chartist leaders

-thomas attwood was in it

-fergeus o’conner irish land owner

-william lovett who founded london working mens association in 1836 ran the chartists

1805

Trafalger

French and spanish troops attacked

Nelson commanded the alklies

The ships fought

Nelson had been shot on one of the ships

Nelson had 33 ships french and spanish had 41 ships

Britain capitured 21 ships without losing a single ship

1815

Waterloo

Napolean had 70k troops

Wellington also had around 70k troops

Austria and prussia had 50k troops

French guns shot wellingtons troops and he defended well so they retreated

Napolean lost 33k men in this origional attack and the allies lost 23k

1813

Vittoria

Part of the peninsular wars

Duke of wellington led the allied forces

French forces were split

French were led by marshal joseph

Wellington deplyed his troops in a strategic formation

French forces suffered heavy losses

Allied forces had 80k

France had 66k troops

1814

Toulouse

Wellington attacked with 12.6k troops

This was in the peninsular war

Shows the importance of our large navy

(Not too important just demonstrates the importance of the size of the navy to out success in the war)