'Shooting Niagara -- And After?'

Robert Saunders is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in political history and the relationship between Britain and Europe. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-67 and the co-editor, with Ben Jackson, of Making Thatcher’s Britain. He is currently writing a new history of the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. Dr Saunders has provided comment and analysis for a wide range of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN and NPR, and recently appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’ (Robert Saunders)
1. The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s (Malcolm Chase)
2. Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform (Kathryn Gleadle)
3. 1867 and the Rule of Wealth (Jonathan Parry)
4. The Second Reform Act and the Problem of Electoral Corruption (Kathryn Rix)
5. The Second Reform Act and the Politics of Empire (Alex Middleton)
6. The Irish Reform Act of 1868 (Colin Barr)
7. ‘Pressure from Without’: Karl Marx and 1867 (Gareth Stedman Jones)
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