Miscellaneous
Images from Illustrated London News of Voting in the 1852 and 1865 Elections
- Westminster election: the Hustings in Covent Garden
- Finsburg Election.— the Hustings at Clerkenwell-Green
- Tower Hamlets Election. — the Hustings at Stepney-Green
- Southwark Election.— the Hustings at the Town-Hall
- Greenwich Election.— the Hustings
- Lambeth Election.— the Hustings on Kennington Common
- City of London Election: The Nomination at Guildhall
- Finsbury Election: The Nomination on Clerkenwell Green
- Westminster Election: The Nomination in Covent Garden
Elections in Cartoon and Book Illustration
- The Election (Part 1. “Humours of an Election Entertainment”) by William Hogarth
- The Election (Part 2. “Canvassing for Votes”) by William Hogarth
- The Election (Part 3. “The Polling”) by William Hogarth
- The Election (Part 4. “Chairing the Member”) by William Hogarth
- The Successful candidate by Phiz (1852 Illustrated London News)
- The Election at Eatanswill — illustration by Phiz for Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- He's kissing 'em all! — illustration by Thomas Nast for Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- The Election at Eatanswill — illustration by Phiz for Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Battles to Extend Men’s Right to Vote
- The Reform Acts of 1832, 1867, and 1884
- Introduction to the Reform Acts
- Chartism and the right to vote
- Terms of the 1832 Reform Act
- The Reform Act Crisis
- The Bristol 1832 Reform Bill Riots — a late-Victorian view
- The Duke of Wellington's Speech on Reform
- How Did the Tories Recover after the 1832 Reform Act?
- “That Great Reform Bill”: Chesterton's attack on the reform bill as the result of an an alliance between the landed aristocrats and the rich manufacturers
- What was at stake and what was reformed in the 1867 Reform Act?
- The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park (1867)
- 14 Editorial cartoons in Fun about Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright and the Second Reform Bill (1866-67)
- The 1884 Reform Act had a greater effect on Ireland than on Great Britain
- A political cartoonist looks at the effects the 1884 and 1885 acts on Tory candidates
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Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the Lyme Regis Borough Election Petition. London: House of Commons, 1842.
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