People & Parliament transforming society

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

• Women and the vote
• Chartists

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

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

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

• Roads and railways
• Canals and rivers

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

• Industry and community
• Import and export
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807

How Parliament has influenced and affected two key aspects of our private lives, the money we earn and our personal relationships

• Relationships
• Taxation

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