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    • People & Parliament transforming society
      • Elections and voting
        • Chartists
          • Birmingham Case Study
            • The Right to Vote
              • Thomas Attwood and the Birmingham Political Union
              • The Chartists and Birmingham
              • Joseph Sturge and John Bright

The Right to Vote

Thomas Attwood and the Birmingham Political Union

  • Thomas Attwood
  • Birmingham Political Union
  • Reform and the Birmingham connection
  • 1832 Reform Act

The Chartists and Birmingham

  • The Chartists
  • 1839 Chartist Petition
  • The Bull Ring Riots
  • 1842 and 1848 Chartist Petitions
  • Dodford and the Chartist Land Plan
  • The Chartist Legacy

Joseph Sturge and John Bright

  • Joseph Sturge and the Complete Suffrage Union
  • John Bright MP and the 1867 Reform Act

Watch the Right to Vote film on YouTube

 Click here to visit YouTube and watch our film, The Right to Vote

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Access a trail leaflet featuring the Birmingham sites our groups discovered had links with the history of the right to vote.(PDF 798 KB)

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