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The Great Reform Act
Further Reading
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall (CUP, 2000)
The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson (Penguin, 1968)
The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain by Eric Evans (Longman, 1983)
The Great Reform Act by Michael Brock (Hutchinson, 1973)
“The Rule of Difference: Gender, Class and Empire in the Making of the 1832 Reform Act” by Catherine Hall in Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century by Ida Blom et al (eds) (Berg, 2000)
Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act by Edward Pearce (Pimlico, 2004)
The Age of Improvement, 1783 – 1867 by Asa Briggs (Longman, 1999)
Parliamentary Reform 1785 – 1928 by Sean Lang (Routledge, 2004)
A Half-century of Greatness: The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1883 by Jeffrey Kramer, Frederic Ewen, and Jeffrey Wollock (New York University Press, 2007)
Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Tories 1830-1852 by Peter Mandler (Clarendon, 1990)
Michael Bentley, Politics without Democracy 1815-1914 (1984)
Ian Machin, The Rise of Democracy in Britain 1830-1918 (2001)
Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 (Oxford, 2006)
Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (New Haven, 1993)
Norman Gash, Aristocracy and People 1815-1865 (1979)
Frank O’Gorman, Voters, Parties and Patrons (Oxford, 1989)
Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (1973)
H.J. Hanham, The Nineteenth Century Constitution (Cambridge, 1969)
H.J. Hanham, The Reformed Electoral System in Great Britain 1832-1914 (Historical Association, 1968)
NOVELS
Middlemarch by George Eliot, introduction by Rosemary Ashton (Penguin Classics, paperback, 2003)
Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, introduction by Lynda Mugglestone (Penguin Classics, paperback, 2006)
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, introduction by Frank Kermode (Penguin Classics, paperback, 2005)
