People & Parliament transforming society

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Parliament at times has been a champion of advances in society, and at others has been the focal point of popular campaigns run by those frustrated by a lack of reforming legislation.</p> </div>   <div id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlMainBody_wrapperDiv" class="rte"> <p></p><div> </div> </div>  <div class="tabs-wrapper parent"> </div> <div id="sub-landing-advanced"> <div class="section-promotion">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/">Elections and voting </a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_hypImageLink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355im_/http://assets4.parliament.uk/iv/main-thumb-square/id_573.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_imgThumbWithLink" alt=""/></a> <p>People power has changed Parliament, achieving fairer representation and equal voting rights</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/chartists/">Chartists</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl00_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/">Women and the vote</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section-promotion">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/">Living and Learning </a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_hypImageLink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355im_/http://assets4.parliament.uk/iv/main-thumb-square/id_1329.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_imgThumbWithLink" alt=""/></a> <p>How Parliament worked with social reformers to improve working conditions and education over the last two centuries</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/">Going to school</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl01_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/19thcentury/">Reforming society in the 19th century</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section-promotion">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/">Town and country</a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_hypImageLink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111121190355im_/http://assets4.parliament.uk/iv/main-thumb-square/id_675.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctlMainImageThumb_imgThumbWithLink" alt=""/></a> <p>The influence that local areas have had in developing their towns and countryside through legislation</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/">Improving towns</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl02_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/landscape/">Managing and owning the landscape</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section-promotion no-image">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/transportcomms/">Transport and communication</a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <p>People working with Parliament have shaped the country鈥檚 infrastructure since medieval times</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl03_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a 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class="inner"> <p>How Britain鈥檚 economic development over the past 300 years was influenced by Parliament</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/slavetrade/">Parliament and the British Slave Trade</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/importexport/">Import and export</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl03_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl04_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl03_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/industrycommunity/">Industry and community</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section-promotion no-image">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/">Private lives </a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <p>How Parliament has influenced and affected two key aspects of our private lives, the money we earn and our personal relationships</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl05_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl05_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/">Relationships</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl05_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl05_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/taxation/">Taxation</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section-promotion no-image">  <h2><a href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/laworder/">Law and order</a></h2>  <div class="inner"> <p>Parliament's involvement in the development and modernisation of the nation鈥檚 system of courts, policing and prisons</p> <ul class="square-bullets"> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl06_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_liItem"> <a id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl06_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl01_hypLink" href="/web/20111121190355/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/laworder/court/">Going to court</a> </li> <li id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlChildPageListing_repChildPages_ctl06_ctrlSectionPromotion_ctrlSimplePageListing_repLinks_ctl02_liItem"> <a 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