Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Pillars of government
  • The English constitution in the age of the American revolution
  • The crisis of the Anglican establishment in the early nineteenth century
  • 'The state of the nation' (1822)
  • 'Cheap government', 1815-1874
  • Parliament and democracy in Britain : the three nineteenth-century reform acts
  • Part II. Elections and electioneering
  • Peel and the Oxford University election of 1829
  • Brougham and the Yorkshire election of 1830
  • Oxford politics in the chancellor's election of 1834
  • The historical significance of the Tamworth manifesto
  • Bonham and the conservative party, 1830-1857
  • Part III. People and society
  • A Glaswegian criminologist : Patrick Colquhoun, 1745-1820
  • The founder of modern conservatism
  • Lord George Bentinck and his sporting world
  • Epilogue
  • A modest defence of historical biography
  • Some reflections on history.