Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners’ interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a time when factory-owners were trying to cut wages. The League was a middle-class nationwide organisation that held many well-attended rallies on the premise that a crusade was needed to convince parliament to repeal the corn laws. Its long-term goals included the removal of feudal privileges, which it denounced as impeding progress, lowering economic well-being, and restricting freedom. The League played little role in the final act in 1846, when Sir Robert Peel led the successful battle for repeal. However, its experience provided a model that was widely adopted in Britain and other democratic nations to demonstrate the organisation of a political pressure group with the popular base.
A friendly society is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose. Before modern insurance and the welfare state, friendly societies provided financial and social services to individuals, often according to their religious, political, or trade affiliations. These societies are still widespread in many parts of the developing world, where they are referred to as ROSCAs, ASCAs, burial societies, chit funds, etc.
An industrial and provident society (IPS) is a body corporate registered for carrying on any industries, businesses, or trades specified in or authorised by its rules.
Edward Vansittart-Neale (1810–1892) was an English barrister, cooperator, and Christian socialist.
The Public Health Act 1875 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, one of the Public Health Acts, and a significant step in the advancement of public health in England.
The Libraries Offences Act 1898 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, applying in England and Wales.
Midlands Co-operative Society Limited was the second largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It was a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union, the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of The Co-operative Group, the largest consumer co-operative in the world. The Society had over 200 stores, principally trading in the English Midlands. Head office was located in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The Heart of England Co-operative Society is an independent consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. Based in Coventry, the Society trades in the English counties of West Midlands, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.
The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 (c. 12) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that regulated industrial and provident societies in Great Britain and the Channel Islands.
Robert Aglionby Slaney was a British barrister and Whig politician from Shropshire. He sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Shrewsbury for most of the period from 1826 until his death in 1862.
Friendly Societies Act is a stock short title used in New Zealand and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to friendly societies.
Hornsey (FIA) Co-operative Credit Union Limited was a savings and loans co-operative, established in the Municipal Borough of Hornsey, now part of the London Borough of Haringey, in 1964. One of the earliest credit unions in the United Kingdom, it merged with London Capital Credit Union in 2013.
The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It consolidates existing legislation relating to industrial and provident societies, as well as introducing some reforms.
William Cooper was an English co-operator, Owenite, and a founding member of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.
The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1862 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and amended the law relating to industrial and provident societies.
The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1876 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and amended the law relating to industrial and provident societies.
The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and amended the law relating to industrial and provident societies.
