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Government Legislation

• - Opened both Oxford and Cambridge to members of all religions.
  
• - Mandated conscription (compulsory enrollment) in the army. Includes brief details.
  
• - Prevented the House of Lords right to pass "money bills" and restricted their ability to delay other legislation to three sessions of parliament. Also reduced the maximum length of time between general elections from seven years to five and prov
  
• - Reduced the duty on oats, barley and wheat to the insignificant sum of one shilling per quarter. Includes brief details.
  
• - Gave women more chance of achieving custody of her children after being divorced. Includes brief text.
  
• - Secured the legal status of trade unions. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Imposed limitations on the right to strike. Includes drawing by Thomas Rowlandson.
  
• - Under its terms married women had the same rights over their property as unmarried women. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Gave unions the right to divide subscriptions into political and social funds. Includes brief details.
  
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• - Increased duties on gin. The sale by distillers and shopkeepers was now strictly controlled. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Allowed peaceful picketing to take place during industrial disputes. Includes brief details.
  
• - Gave the Home Secretary the power to ban marches in the London area and also made it an offense to wear political uniforms and use threatening and abusive words.
  
• - Applied principally, though not exclusively, to protect the health and morals of apprentices in cotton and woolen mills. Includes brief details of regulations.
  
• - Limited the hours of work to sixty-three per week from the 1st of July 1847, and to fifty-eight per week, from the 1st of May 1848. Includes brief details.
  
• - Abolished gaolers' fees and suggested ways for improving the sanitary state of prisons and the better preservation of the health of prisoners. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Passed by Parliament and granted freedom to all slaves in the British Empire. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.
  
• - Slightly increased the weekly working hours from fifty-eight to sixty, while rendering the enforcement of the definite working day practically secure. Includes brief details.
  
• - Banned meetings of over fifty people and instructed magistrates to arrest everyone suspected of spreading libel. Includes cartoon and brief details.
  
• - Introduced regular visits by prison chaplains, the payment of gaolers, prohibition of irons, and assignment of women warders to women prisoners. Includes brief background text.
  
• - Refers to a means of dealing with women prisoners' hunger strikes. Includes postcard and brief summary.
  
• - Narrowly defined the rights of trade unions as meeting to bargain over wages and conditions. Includes brief text.
  
• - Provided between 1s. and 5s. a week to people over seventy. These pensions were only paid to citizens on incomes that were not over 12s. Includes brief details.
  
• - Six measures enacted by Parliament to suppress radical newspapers and meetings, as well as reduce the possibility of an armed uprising. Includes details.
  
• - Presents details of attempts made to obtain full political and civil liberties to British and Irish Roman Catholics. Includes drawing by J. Doyle.
  
• - Reduced the working schedule a half-an-hour daily in textile factories. Includes brief details.
  
• - Gave the British working classes the first contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment. Includes brief details.
  
• - Divided the country into about 2500 school districts, gave ratepayers authority to elect school boards, allowed school boards the right to make their own by-laws and granted women the right to vote for board candidates. Includes details.
  
• - Attempted to establish a normal working day in a single department of industry or textile manufacture. Includes brief details.
  
• - Prohibited employment of women within four weeks after confinement and raised the minimum age at which a child could work from ten to eleven. Includes brief details.
  
• - Stated it was a serious crime for members of a crowd of twelve or more people to refuse to disperse within an hour of being ordered to do so by a magistrate. Includes brief details.
  
• - Policy to deal with religious conflicts in Ireland by uniting the country with the rest of Britain under a single Parliament. Includes brief details.
  
• - Gave the government emergency powers to requisition property, apply censorship, control labour and removed traditional civil liberties. Includes brief text.
  
• - Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.
  
• - Law that forced British captains to pay a £100 for every slave found on board. Includes brief details.
  
• - Defined the rights of trade unions as meeting to bargain over wages and conditions. Includes brief details.
  
• - Permitted local authorities to provide school meals. Includes brief details.
  
• - Developed a partnership between political parties, local authorities and specially appointed committees of building employees and employers. Planned for building of 190,000 new council houses at modest rents in 1925.
  
• - Extended the vote to women ratepayers in local elections and also enabled women to serve as Poor Law Guardians. Includes brief details.
  
• - Abolished all 2568 school boards and handed over their duties to local boroughs or county councils. Became major political issue. Includes background information.
  
• - Raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen, strengthened existing legislation against prostitution and proscribed all homosexual relations. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Required each company to run one passenger train daily at the cheap rate of one penny a mile (1.6 km), provide carriage seats that offered protection from bad weather. Includes details.
  
• - Established provision for building of work houses, their supervision and conditions. Includes details.
  
• - Allowed divorce through the law courts, instead of the slow and expensive business of a private act of Parliament. Includes brief details.
  
• - Allowed policeman to arrest prostitutes in ports and army towns and bring them in to have compulsory checks for venereal disease. Includes brief details.
  
• - Imposed a duty on imported corn. Includes excerpts from the writings of several authors.
  
• - Reduced the hours of work for children between eight and thirteen to six and a half a day. Includes brief details.
  
• - Restricted the hours during which children, young persons and women could work in any manufacturing process in an establishment which employed fifty or more persons. Includes brief summary.
  
• - Increased tax on British newspapers to 4d. a copy. Includes brief details.
  
• - Gave mothers the right of custody of their children under seven for the first time, but only if the Lord Chancellor agreed to it, and only if the mother was of good character. Includes brief summary.
  
  

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