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. Roberts provides a guide to the new approaches to topics such as Chartism, parliamentary reform, Gladstonian Liberalism, popular Conservatism and the independent Labour movement.
One of the first comprehensive studies of the 'new political history' covering a formative period in English politics
Provides a critical synthesis of the latest scholarship
Adopts a structure that is accessible and useful to both students and scholars
Matthew Roberts
England labour movement parliament political history politics reform transformation