num_pages: 720
description: Between Waterloo and Gladstone's first ministry, Britain underwent a series of rapid and complex changes. At home, repression gave way to reform of the franchise, local government, education, poor relief, and the factory and legal systems. Further agitation arose in the 1840s over the CornLaws, the People's Charter, and the Irish Question. By the 1860s, Britain was able to bask in the glow of the mid-Victorian supremacy forged by its economic might and the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh, Canning, and Palmerston, which maintained the balance of power and extended the colonialempire.
language: English
title: The Age of Reform 1815-1870
titlecomplete: The Age of Reform 1815-1870 (Oxford History of England, XIII)
genres: Victorian, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 32
series: Oxford History of England
publisher: Oxford University Press