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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Democracy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Professor John Stuart Blackie opposed the 1867 Reform Bill as he believed it to be &#039;purely democratic&#039; and wished to see changes in the methods of representation of the people. A course of action (eg elections), should not be determined by the vote of the mindless majority. Blackie would have liked the 1867 Reform Bill to contain proposals for an adequate representation for the working classes; a special representation for the &#039;civic, moral and intellectual aristocracy of the people&#039;, and more than one method of electing representatives.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[John Stuart Blackie]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1867]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD136]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Address to the Working Classes by the Aberdeen Working Men&#039;s Association]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In these pages, the Aberdeen Working Men&#039;s Association requests that readers should unite to demand the right to vote for all. They believed that this would be the most effective method of bring about an improvement in the conditions of the working classes.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1867]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD135]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Word in Season to the Electors of the County and City of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Reform Bill has been passed and the first elections still have to be held. The writer asks the reader to consider the candidates for the city and county carefully, and to vote in favour of the Reformers. He gives reasons why electors should not vote for the Tory candidates - James Hadden for the City and Sir Michael Bruce for the County.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[G Cornwall, printer]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G Cornwall, printer at the Herald Office, Aberdeen]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1832]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD134]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reform Demonstration at Montrose]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This page illustrates that in 1884, meetings, speeches and demonstrations in support of Reform were held all over the north east of Scotland. In 1884, radicals were trying to obtain the same right to vote in the counties as in the burghs.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Montrose Liberal Association]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created on 6th October 1884]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD133]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Reform Demonstration in Aberdeen. Description of the Procession and report of speeches at the Great Mass Meeting on the Links]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The 1884 Reform Demonstration, organised by the Trades&#039; Unions, was the largest demonstration to have taken place in Aberdeen since 1832. It was held as part of a campaign to equalize the county and burgh franchises. At this time, there were different qualifications, counties and burghs did not have the same rights. <br />
<br />
Farmers who rented small farms did not get the vote until the 1884 Reform Act was passed. This detailed description of the Demonstration appeared first in the Daily Free Press. The Daily Free Press was a Radical Liberal newspaper and in favour of reform.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Offices of the Daily Free Press and Evening Gazette, Aberdeen]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created on 16th August 1884<br />
published on 18th August 1884]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD132]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Franchise Bill Demonstration at Aberdeen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This pamphlet, compiled from a selection of local papers, gives a description of the full proceedings of the demonstration. Included are lists of the groups represented and names of marshals. There is an account of the procession, which gives the names of the trades that were represented in the procession as well as their order of marching. Those involved in the 1832 Reform movement who were present, as elderly gentlemen, are also named, as are those who were Chartists. The accounts ends with a report of the speeches.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in August 1884]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD131]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/10437">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Diary of Passing Events in Aberdeen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Diary of Passing Events is anti Tory, pro Reform and pro Free Trade. It wishes to see changes made for the good of all citizens and corruption in the council practice exposed.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[John Watt]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1832]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD130]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Excerpts from An Appeal for Scotland to The Parliament of 1851]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[These excerpts suggest that some changes should be made with regard to Scotland and its political provisions and its voting rights. The writer suggests that Scotland should have its own Secretary of State and that the franchise should be lowered to £5 from £10.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[William Russell, Broad Street, Aberdeen]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1850]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD129]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Excerpt from The Knowledge Qualification]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this excerpt from his essay, The Knowledge Qualification, James Adam, editor of the Radical Aberdeen newspaper, The Aberdeen Herald, argues that education and civil rights are vital for all people. Instead of the £10 voting qualification, people should qualify to vote by attaining a certain standard of intelligence. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[James Adam]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G Cornwall, printer at the Herald Office, Aberdeen]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1837]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD128]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Address to the Electors of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A satirical poem, produced by the Aberdeen Herald, great supporters of Reform. The poem appears to come out of the mouth the current Tory Provost, James Hadden, who was, in reality, very much against Reform. In this poem, he &#039;admits&#039; to his true agenda. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[G Cornwall, printer]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[printed paper pamphlet]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G Cornwall, printer at the Herald Office, Aberdeen]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[created in 1832]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[University of Aberdeen]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RAD127]]></dcterms:identifier>
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