Pressure and Parliament

Richard Huzzey is a reader in history at Durham University. He has published Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (2012), and co-edited, with Robert Burroughs, a volume entitled The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2015). Alongside Henry Miller, he leads the Leverhulme Trust research project ‘Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People, 1780–1918’.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements                                                                                                               Introduction1. Contesting Interests: Rethinking Pressure, Parliament, Nation, and Empire (Richard Huzzey)The Politics of Pressure2. The Lowest Degree of Freedom’: The Right to Petition Parliament, 1640–1800 (Mark Knights)3. Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in 19th-Century England (Sarah Richardson)Social and Economic Pressures4. Petitions, Economic Legislation and Interest Groups in Britain, 1660–1800 (Julian Hoppit)5. Social Reform and the Pressure of ‘Progress’ on Parliament, 1660–1914 (Lawrence Goldman)Intellectual and Spiritual Pressures6. From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group: The Bishops and Parliament (Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey)7. Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform (Amanda B. Moniz)8. The Too Clever by Half People’ and Parliament (William Whyte)Index