Reformers Collection

Cartoon, The End of the Rotten Borough -- the Reform Bill of 1832 did away with these so-called rotten boroughs, which were constituencies with a very small electorate

London First Sewage System Fleet Streets Street
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BURNING HERETICS BOOKS
When church reformers Martin Bucer and Phagius are put to death, their heretical books are burnt along with their bodies. Date: 1551

Mens Dress Reformers Hold Revel
Members of the Mens Dress Reform Party airing their sartorial notions and their limbs at their very decorous Revel at the Suffolk Galleries

Sir Rowland Hill
SIR ROWLAND HILL, the postal reformers statue outside the former General Post Office in St Martins le Grande, with the dome of St Pauls Cathedral in the background. Date: 1795 - 1879

China / Tonkin Border
Reformers routed on the Tonkin border - the French are involved. Date: 1908

Martin Bucer - German protestant reformer
Martin Bucer or Martin Butzer (1491-1551) - German protestant reformer based in Strasbourg. Date: circa 1545

Clandestine Meeting
A clandestine meeting of republican reformers : this year its only talk, but next year it will be revolution

Kipling / Stalky & Co. / C19
The moral reformers, Beetle, Stalky & McTurk punish the two bullies by tying their hands to their feet

Bible-Bringers
The Primitive Reformers to whom (under GOD) we are indepted for the Glorious Light of the Gospel (which the Pope and his companions cannot blow out...)

Student Agitators 1848
Students in Vienna form part of the revolt with radical liberals and workers calling for constitutional reform. One of the many European revolutions of the year 1848

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