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Introduction

About the group
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Parliamentary Archives and Birmingham Archives and Heritage worked with an adult reading group from Northfield Library, Birmingham to investigate the history of the movement for electoral reform in Birmingham.

About the Birmingham case study
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Groups from Birmingham have been working with Parliamentary Archives, Parliamentary Outreach and Birmingham Archives and Heritage to look at the history of the right to vote.

The need for reform
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By the 19th century, society had undergone great changes but the parliamentary system had not changed with it. Find out more about the need for reform here.