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Period: to
Factory System
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Period: to
Old Poor Law
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Gilbert's Act
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Period: to
French Wars
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Period: to
Speenhamland System
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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
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London Hampden Club Established
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Period: to
War with USA
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Spa Field Riots
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March of the Blanketeers
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Pentrich Rising
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Suspension of Habius Corpus
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Seditious Meetings Act
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Peterloo Massacre
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Six Acts
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Richard Oastler's Letter to Leeds Mercury
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10 Hours Movement
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Swing Riots
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First Case of Cholera in UK
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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
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Great Reform Act
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Shaftesbury Re-Introduces Bill to Parliament
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Period: to
New Poor Law
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Poor Law Ammendment Act
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Municipal Corporations Act
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Six Demands of Chartism Released
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Period: to
Trade Depressions in the North
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Period: to
Chartism
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15,000 Parishes now 600 PLUs, 350 WHs Built
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The First Chartist Petition
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Newport Rising
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Report on the Saniatry Conditions of the Labouring Class of Great Britain Published
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Mines Act
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Second Chartist Petition
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Plug Plots
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O'Connor's Land Reform
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Factory Act
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Third Chartist Petition
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Public Health Act
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Sanitary Act