An account of the crucial political and economic issues behind the 1832 Reform Act. This book highlights the travails of Toryism at the end of the 1820s, clarifies complex questions of policy, shows the connections between the Reform Act of 1832 and the Second Reform Act, and updates statistics.[...]

Provides an introduction to the life and career of Sir Robert Peel - one of the most important political leaders of the nineteenth century. This book assesses Peel's career, and includes a glossary of key terms, plus a bibliography.[...]

The theme of Professor Evans' book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments from the eighteenth century. Many periods and topics are dealt with in this comprehensive book.[...]

Describing the period 1815-1832 as 'The birth of a new age', this book considers the tremendous forces of change operating after industrialisation and discusses the achievement of Lord Liverpool's administration in containing these pressures, thereby leading the way to evolutionary change rather tha[...]