Liberalism was the dominant political force of Victorian Britain, yet it remains an area relatively undocumented. Between 1830 and 1886 a coalition of anti-Cons

The diverse coalition of forces that came to be known as the Liberal party dominated British politics in the period between 1830 and 1886. This book seeks to ac

This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-e

A critical introduction to the mass political movements that came of age in urban England between the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the start of World War One. R

The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider