People & Parliament transforming society

People power has changed Parliament, achieving fairer representation and equal voting rights

• Chartists
• Women and the vote

How Parliament worked with social reformers to improve working conditions and education over the last two centuries

• Going to school
• Reforming society in the 19th century

The influence that local areas have had in developing their towns and countryside through legislation

• Improving towns
• Managing and owning the landscape

People working with Parliament have shaped the country’s infrastructure since medieval times

• Canals and rivers
• Roads and railways

How Britain’s economic development over the past 300 years was influenced by Parliament

• Parliament and the British Slave Trade
• Import and export
• Industry and community

How Parliament has influenced and affected a range of aspects of our private lives, including the money we earn and our personal relationships

• Relationships
• Religion and belief
• Taxation
• Your country needs you

Parliament's involvement in the development and modernisation of the nation’s system of courts, policing and prisons

• Going to court
• Police, prisons and penal reform