Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current ag

This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political parties a

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the t

Explores the emergence of majority rule in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries.