HISTORY 2MM3 Lecture 2: September 12.docx
28 Oct 2014
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House of commons (have to own a certain amount of land before you can sit in house of commons) Constituencies (archaic some major cities have no representatives, and tiny towns have 1 or 2 representatives) Tories: church, crown & gentry" (eventually evolve into conservatives) Whigs: reform, supremacy of parliament over the monarchy, limiting of royal powers (evolve into liberals) For most of 18th century they dominate parliament. Whigs want themselves to be more powerful and limit the king"s power (responsible for the invitation of william of orange to take over from james the 2nd). Tories pittites after their leader william pitt. Middle class reformist radicals & bethamites. Believe half of all men should be able to vote, rather than 1/12. Nature and pace of industrial change, c. 1750 1850: Evolutionary change punctuated by significant innovation moments". Industrialization began with textiles (cloth, then cloth becomes clothes)
