Petitions tagged with "History"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership
  Opened on Thursday 12th March 2026
  197,043 signatures so far

• Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers & safeguard vulnerable children
  Opened on Thursday 8th January 2026
  147,566 signatures so far

• Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.
  Open from Thursday 12th December 2024 to Thursday 12th June 2025
  128,750 signatures

• Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
  Open from Tuesday 12th November 2024 to Monday 12th May 2025
  110,470 signatures

• New Disclosure and Safeguarding Mechanism for At-Risk Children
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  110,021 signatures

• Fund cardiac screening at age 14 years and cardiac awareness programme
  Opened on Wednesday 14th January 2026
  37,279 signatures so far

• Grant Cornwall nation status
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  24,006 signatures

• Add hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
  Open from Friday 31st January 2025 to Thursday 31st July 2025
  14,991 signatures

• Review and fund improved detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer
  Open from Tuesday 24th June 2025 to Wednesday 24th December 2025
  14,374 signatures

• Review and support the continued operation of pubs to prevent more closures
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  12,486 signatures

• Require DBS Checks for Tattoo Artists in England
  Opened on Friday 21st November 2025
  10,507 signatures so far

• Grant interim exemptions to all seized dogs with no prior history of aggression
  Opened on Wednesday 17th December 2025
  6,581 signatures so far

• Ensure people whose parent had breast cancer under 45 can access genetic testing
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  4,986 signatures so far

• Deport people with dual nationality who are found guilty of raping children
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  3,562 signatures

• Review Government's approach to redacting Polish Military Records held by MoD
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  2,908 signatures

• Keep 5 year route to ILR for Existing Ancestry Visa Holders
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  2,354 signatures

• Strengthen protection of DA victims and how their testimony is treated in court
  Opened on Monday 16th March 2026
  1,781 signatures so far

• Help to return Ukrainian children that have been forcibly taken by Russia
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  1,718 signatures

• Lower the age for invites to regular mammograms to 40.
  Open from Friday 11th April 2025 to Saturday 11th October 2025
  1,574 signatures

• Introduce measures to protect women at risk of domestic violence
  Open from Tuesday 1st July 2025 to Thursday 1st January 2026
  1,338 signatures

• Require dating apps to ensure ID and DBS checks on users & ban violent offenders
  Open from Tuesday 5th November 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025
  1,216 signatures

• Ban churches from being given a use as another religious building
  Open from Monday 11th August 2025 to Wednesday 11th February 2026
  928 signatures

• Legally require absent parents to undertake medical testing if child is unwell
  Opened on Friday 8th May 2026
  907 signatures so far

• Ban the Nazi salute, like in Germany, and Austria
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  734 signatures

• Introduce a public misconduct register for police accountability & transparency
  Opened on Wednesday 19th November 2025
  699 signatures so far

• Introduce a Kannada language GCSE
  Opened on Tuesday 20th January 2026
  625 signatures so far

• Fund the NHS to create a national database for NHS medical records
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  613 signatures

• Require medical history to be listed on horse passports
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  582 signatures so far

• Apologise for the Balfour Declaration and fund the teaching of its legacy
  Opened on Friday 8th May 2026
  551 signatures so far

• Make 12 July 2027 a Bank Holiday for 1100th anniversary of the birth of England
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  529 signatures so far

• Require all public buildings to display the Union Jack flag
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  525 signatures

• Fund NHS Prostate Risk Questionnaire at age 45
  Opened on Tuesday 13th January 2026
  519 signatures so far

• All nannies, tutors and babysitters to have an enhanced DBS check.
  Open from Wednesday 15th January 2025 to Tuesday 15th July 2025
  485 signatures

• Fund history teachers free/discounted entry to historical sites
  Opened on Tuesday 24th February 2026
  464 signatures so far

• Make Nakba education part of the national curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 20th May 2025 to Thursday 20th November 2025
  458 signatures

• Repeal the Human Rights Act 1998
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  290 signatures

• Introduce UK-led humanitarian aid sea corridor for navy-escorted aid to Gaza
  Open from Thursday 2nd October 2025 to Thursday 2nd April 2026
  254 signatures

• Create a Cold War Medal for veterans who served in the cold war.
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  248 signatures

• Make Black history part of the curriculum in all schools
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  215 signatures

• Review the UK Novel Foods Regs to allow medical mushrooms for human consumption
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  188 signatures so far

• Reverse the decision to abolish the Hereditary Peers
  Opened on Wednesday 15th April 2026
  155 signatures so far

• Introduce Qualification exams to become an MP
  Open from Tuesday 15th July 2025 to Thursday 15th January 2026
  135 signatures

• Make it easier for parents to get EOTAS via an EHC plan.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  133 signatures

• Require dating sites to check domestic violence convictions & ban those users
  Open from Wednesday 2nd July 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026
  109 signatures

• Online age checks: do not use personal information & third party perform checks
  Open from Tuesday 26th August 2025 to Thursday 26th February 2026
  106 signatures

• Review the legislation relating to asylum and refugees entering the UK
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  104 signatures

• Make Holocaust denial and performing Nazi salutes a specific criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 12th November 2025
  101 signatures so far

• Change the law to exempt church clock chimes from noise abatement regulations
  Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
  100 signatures so far

• Standardise Women’s Titles as "Ms" and Eliminate Titles Based on Marital Status
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  99 signatures

• Make History compulsory at school until 16 to protect the future
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  99 signatures so far

• Re-Recognise Somaliland as an Independent State
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  93 signatures

• Fund screening of prostate cancer for all men over 50, every 2 years
  Opened on Thursday 5th February 2026
  93 signatures so far

• Allow metal detectorists to search land prior to building development
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  92 signatures

• Publish and expedite the bill to ban conversion therapy
  Open from Thursday 28th August 2025 to Saturday 28th February 2026
  91 signatures

• Restrict the right to a Postal Vote to certain groups
  Open from Thursday 23rd January 2025 to Wednesday 23rd July 2025
  89 signatures

• Automatically disclose a violent offender’s history to a partner
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  86 signatures

• Provide funding to start routine mammograms at age 18
  Open from Thursday 14th August 2025 to Saturday 14th February 2026
  82 signatures

• Make the destruction or scrapping of UK military medals a criminal offence
  Opened on Thursday 5th March 2026
  78 signatures so far

• Keep open local Army Reserve Centres and reopen recently closed ones
  Opened on Friday 24th April 2026
  76 signatures so far

• Government must act to help stop Christian persecution in India
  Opened on Friday 20th February 2026
  71 signatures so far

• Fund development of antipsychotics and mood stabilisers with fewer side effects
  Open from Tuesday 12th August 2025 to Thursday 12th February 2026
  69 signatures

• Create a Sikh regiment in the British Army
  Open from Friday 12th September 2025 to Thursday 12th March 2026
  67 signatures

• Add Non molestation orders to Clare's Law disclosure and DBS automatically
  Open from Wednesday 23rd July 2025 to Friday 23rd January 2026
  67 signatures

• Increase UK support for Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa recovery to £200 million
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  67 signatures so far

• Teach the full history of South Asian people who fought for Britain
  Open from Thursday 24th July 2025 to Saturday 24th January 2026
  65 signatures

• Require schools to notify parents with PR of welfare concerns about their child
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  64 signatures

• Mandatory whole life order for murder
  Opened on Thursday 5th March 2026
  62 signatures so far

• Government to support calls to unify Northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan
  Opened on Monday 19th January 2026
  55 signatures so far

• All biological and intended parents to be named on birth registration & reform
  Open from Thursday 14th August 2025 to Saturday 14th February 2026
  54 signatures

• Amend the British Museum Act to allow artefact repatriation
  Opened on Wednesday 17th December 2025
  54 signatures so far

• Seek to secure trade deals with the US and Canada
  Open from Monday 30th December 2024 to Monday 30th June 2025
  54 signatures

• Fund free online access & release all historic birth, marriage & death records
  Open from Monday 18th August 2025 to Wednesday 18th February 2026
  54 signatures

• Create a Public Holiday on 15 June in England & Wales to commemorate Magna Carta
  Open from Monday 23rd June 2025 to Tuesday 23rd December 2025
  54 signatures

• Require mothers to list the father (if known) on birth certificate if safe to do
  Opened on Thursday 18th December 2025
  51 signatures so far

• Recognise & fund commemorations of the 1,100 Anniversary of England's Foundation
  Open from Friday 15th August 2025 to Sunday 15th February 2026
  51 signatures

• Review the monarch's powers to include crisis resolution
  Open from Friday 31st January 2025 to Thursday 31st July 2025
  49 signatures

• Fund a mandatory NHS wide digital patient record across all NHS hospitals
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  48 signatures so far

• Introduce the history of trains and railways to the National Curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  46 signatures

• Hold Public Inquiry on allegations of UK citizens' "Sniper Tourism" in Sarajevo
  Opened on Monday 12th January 2026
  45 signatures so far

• Mandate teaching the Irish troubles in the English curriculum
  Open from Monday 13th October 2025 to Monday 13th April 2026
  44 signatures

• Release all records from each census after 75 years instead of 100 years
  Open from Thursday 31st July 2025 to Saturday 31st January 2026
  43 signatures

• Require clinicians to review full patient history before diagnosis or discharge
  Opened on Friday 20th February 2026
  42 signatures so far

• Legal requirement to test and record blood group at birth for medical records
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  42 signatures

• Revert back to using the title of His Majesty’s Government and not UK Government
  Opened on Friday 10th April 2026
  41 signatures so far

• Save Old Devonian/Celtic Devonian language by making it a protected language
  Opened on Wednesday 4th February 2026
  39 signatures so far

• Protect the 6 Nations Championship & Ensure Live Free to Air Broadcast
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Notify new parents of partner's criminal record when registering birth
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Remove sanctions against Russia if ceasefire deal agreed with Ukraine
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  35 signatures

• More push for nuclear treaties
  Opened on Monday 5th January 2026
  33 signatures so far

• Work with the devolved governments to create UK-wide Civic Curriculum
  Open from Friday 5th September 2025 to Thursday 5th March 2026
  31 signatures

• Legally protect nightlife venues from closure and noise complaints
  Opened on Friday 16th January 2026
  31 signatures so far

• Ban employers & recruiters asking about candidates’ salaries when recruiting
  Opened on Tuesday 10th March 2026
  28 signatures so far

• Create a statutory property information service with house buying information
  Open from Thursday 23rd January 2025 to Wednesday 23rd July 2025
  27 signatures

• Grant British citizenship to Kurdish people and acknowledge history
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  23 signatures

• Create a Contribution-Based Talent Re-Entry Visa for Former UK Skilled Worker
  Opened on Wednesday 25th March 2026
  23 signatures so far

• Fund free DNA ancestry tests for Transatlantic Slave Trade Descendants
  Open from Wednesday 26th February 2025 to Tuesday 26th August 2025
  22 signatures

• Require all phone numbers be added to a public register
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  20 signatures

• Create & grant a 5-year visa for students who worked in the UK for a year
  Opened on Tuesday 28th April 2026
  13 signatures so far

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