Political Movements in Urban England, 1832-1914

MATTHEW ROBERTS is Lecturer in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionCitizenship, the Franchise and Electoral CultureRadicalism in the Age of the ChartistsThe Culture and 'Failure' of RadicalismThe Making of Mid-Victoran Popular LiberalismPost-Chartist Radicalism and the (Un)making of Popular LiberalismRethinking the 'Transformation' of Popular ConservatismDefining and Debating Popular ConservatismThe Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour I: A NarrativeThe Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour II: The DebateThe Modernization of Popular PoliticsNotesBibliographyIndex.

'An excellent survey of the history of nineteenth-century British politics, based on a thorough and extensive set of readings of the latest scholarship on the subject.' - Peter Stansky, Stanford University, USA