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 1835 Municipal Reform Act is both a consequence and a continuation of the 1832 Reform Act. By dealing with those “citadels of Torysm” that were the muni

"When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England,

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers explo

In what has established itself as a classic study of Britain from the late eighteenth century to the mid-Victorian period, Eric J. Evans explains how the countr