Derwent Dam and the Dam Busters

What is the intriguing connection between Derwent Dam and 617 Squadron?

London Waterloo Station opened 1848

Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846

The impact of the Corn Laws and the significance in terms of the history of reform and social justice is open to a loy of debate but the Acts were finally repealed in 1846, when Sir Robert Peel was Prime Minister. Take a look at our Reform and Radicals series and the history of Poor…

Poor Law Amendment Act 1834

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Law - Poor Law

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Reforming Women

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This entry is part 1 of 15 in the series Reformers and Radicals

The draconian Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was to seal the fate and abject misery of many poor people through the majority of the19th century. Find out here the basis of the law and how it was implemented in Victorian Britain.

Portsmouth branch National union of women’s suffrage 1909-1913

PWS Records of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies: Portsmouth Branch (1913) The Portsmouth branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (1909-1913) was established in 1909 with Miss Nora O’Shea as secretary and was a member of the Surrey, Sussex and Hants Federation of the NUWSS. It seems to have ceased work…