Britain's Whig Party recovers its strength and…
1828 CE to 1839 CE
Catholic emancipation is secured in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, which removes the most substantial restrictions on Roman Catholics in Britain.
The Whigs become champions of Parliamentary reform.
They make Lord Grey prime minister 1830–1834, and the Reform Act 1832 becomes their signature measure.
It broadens the franchise slightly and ends the system of rotten and pocket boroughs (where elections are controlled by powerful families), and gives seats to new industrial centers.
The aristocracy continues to dominate the government, the Army and Royal Navy, and high society.
After parliamentary investigations demonstrate the horrors of child labor, limited reforms are passed in 1833.
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