Joshua Curtiss’s Reviews > The Age of Reform, 1815–1870 > Status Update

Woodward is currently discussing prison reform and how religion was being taught in prisons by missionaries and how controversial that was.

Discussing the woes of the Irish agricultural situation.

Woodward is discussing ironclad ships after the conclusion of the Crimean War.

Woodward is discussing agriculture and the different views the politicians had on its usefulness in industry.

Part 1 of Book 1: Politics and Parties has just wrapped up with Woodward discussing the great excitement over the bill that eventually led to the industrial revolution finally passing Parliament. He also talked about Wellington and Place's different views on the temperament of the English people, and how advancements in Scottish and Irish representation in Parliament were taken during this time.

Part 1 of Book 1: Politics and Parties has just wrapped up. It ended on the high note of passing the bill in Parliament that eventually led to an industrial revolution and discussing Wellington and Place's different views on the English temperament. Next is the monarchy and the ministers of England during this time.

Woodward is discussing labor unions and strikes, and how Parliament is having a laid-back response. He is also talking about how there is much violence involved in the strikes (murder, even) and that many people thought the strikers were becoming tyrants just like the businessmen they were rebelling against.

Woodward discusses labor unions and strikes in the first 20 years of the Age of Reform and Parliament's laid-back response to the violence and murders that the strikers were enacting.

Woodward is currently discussing some of the seditious conspiracies and riots occurring during the early 1800s in England. He just finished talking about the breaking up of the Whig and Tory parties and how they formed their own factions.

The Introduction has just been completed. Woodward is explaining how the rest of the book will be laid out, and he just completed explaining the growth of the railroads and how they impacted the English economy during the Age of Reform.