“Punch” cartoons on the 1867 Reform Bill (original) (raw)

Debates about the Reform Bill

• The Gossips
• The Reform Bill, 1866. Frantic Excitement!!!
• Clearing the Barricade
• The Street Up Again!

Who shall have the vote? How widely should the franchise expand?

• No Rough-ianism
• Manhood Suffrage (anti-Irish prejudice)
• The ‘Irrepressible’ Lodger

Gladstone and Disraeli, Liberal and Tory, working together

• A Block on the Line
• Before the Trial
• Extremes Must Meet; or, a Bit of Practical Science

Disraeli and Lord Derby poach the Liberal program

• Political “Economy”
• Great Poaching Affray on Liberal Premises
• Political Kidnapping
• The Honest Potboy
• The Political Tailors
• The Derby, 1867. Dizzy wins with “Reform Bill’
• The Political Egg-Dance
• The Whitebait Dinner; or, “Parties” at Greenwich

Miscellaneous

• The Popular Poll-Parrot (mocking Robert Lowe)
• Fagin’s Political School

Related material

• The Reform Acts
• Editorial cartoons in Fun about Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright and the Second Reform Bill (1866-67)
• Lord Derby (Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 1799-1869)
• Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)
• William Gladstone

Last modified 16 September 2017