Dr Marilyn Waring is the author of numerous works, most recently her anthology of writings, In The Lifetime of a Goat I am ...

T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

and partly by each party’s desire to reshape the electorate to its own advantage. By contrast the Whig Reform Act of 1832 was concerned not with individual rights or voter profiles or party politics ...

Dating from the Georgian era, gentlemen's clubs were reserved exclusively for the aristocracy and the elite, to meet, drink, ...

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, both shaped by their unique cultural sensibilities, offered contrasting paths of ...

Indeed, in 1832 the Great Reform Act was passed, a formal acknowledgement that women did not form part of the electorate and were therefore excluded! However the events and social changes that ...

Electoral registers were first created in 1832 as a result of the Great Reform Act, 1832. Strict voting qualifications – based on land ownership – meant that at this date just 1% of the adult ...

Between 1832 and 1837, many capital offenses were swept ... In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic]. By 1776, most of the colonies had roughly ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has introduced a package of proposals to rule out excessive civil litigation. Here's what you need to know about tort reform.

The Laken Riley Act would subject immigrants who entered the country illegally to detainment if they are charged with or arrested for certain crimes.

Although federal unions sometimes had differences with Carter, the National Treasury Employees Union mourned his Dec. 29 death, praising him for “the milestone Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 ...

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party is polling just one percentage point behind the governing Labour Party, according to an opinion survey that will cause headaches for British Prime ...