Database of Poems
Reform!
1867-8: Representation of the People Acts
Author: Frank Hill
This poem appears in our anthology
Publication: Dundee Advertiser
Publisher: John Leng & Co.
Published: 29 October 1867
Place of publication: Dundee, Scotland
Publication type: Newspaper/Periodical
Featured individuals:
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
John Shearer (president, Aberdeen Reform League)
No full copy of this poem is available.
Music-hall style performance in Aberdeen Mechanics' Hall as part of Reform League social meeting - the newspaper quotes a comic verse making references to reforming Aberdeen, as well as wider political situation.