The 1832 Reform Act was a turning point in British history and set Britain on the path to democracy; read all about it in this post.
The Passage of the Representation of the People Act, 2 & 3 Will. 4. c.45 (1832) | Stephen Basdeo
Notes from the Library: “The Life of Thomas Cooper written by Himself” (1872) | Stephen Basdeo
How amazing it would be, Cooper mused, if we could trace our every single thought over our whole lifetimes. Yet he knew that such a thing wasn’t possible and that autobiographies shouldn’t necessarily be relied on to tell the whole truth, and this was one such question which bothered him as an autobiographer
A Revolutionary Aristocrat: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond | Stephen Basdeo
Universal suffrage was not achieved in England until 1918. However, a century-and-a-half before, one brave aristocrat proposed that all men have the right to vote. And he proposed this in the House of Lords of all places!