The Condition of England 1814-1870

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  • Period: to

    Factory System

  • Period: to

    Old Poor Law

  • Gilbert's Act

  • Period: to

    French Wars

  • Period: to

    Speenhamland System

  • Apprentices Act

    Dealt only with textile mills and said:
    - Night work forbidden
    - Hours of work limited to 12 hours
    - Male and Female apprentices to be given seperate sleeping quarters
    - Basic schooling in 3Rs to be given
    - JPs would inspect
    - Mill owners could be fined

  • London Hampden Club Established

  • Period: to

    War with USA

  • Spa Field Riots

  • March of the Blanketeers

  • Pentrich Rising

  • Suspension of Habius Corpus

  • Seditious Meetings Act

  • Peterloo Massacre

  • Six Acts

  • Richard Oastler's Letter to Leeds Mercury

  • Period: to

    10 Hours Movement

  • Swing Riots

  • First Case of Cholera in UK

  • Factory Bill

    Workers between the age of 9 and 18 could only work 10 hrs a day.

  • Royal Commission of Enquiry into Poor Law Set Up

  • Great Reform Act

  • Shaftesbury Re-Introduces Bill to Parliament

  • Period: to

    New Poor Law

  • Poor Law Ammendment Act

  • Municipal Corporations Act

  • Six Demands of Chartism Released

  • Period: to

    Trade Depressions in the North

  • Period: to

    Chartism

  • 15,000 Parishes now 600 PLUs, 350 WHs Built

  • The First Chartist Petition

  • Newport Rising

  • Report on the Saniatry Conditions of the Labouring Class of Great Britain Published

  • Mines Act

  • Second Chartist Petition

  • Plug Plots

  • O'Connor's Land Reform

  • Factory Act

  • Third Chartist Petition

  • Public Health Act

  • Sanitary Act