Subject Introductions

Dr Tom Crook Reader in Modern British History, Oxford Brookes University During the nineteenth century, economics emerged as a recognisable and increasingly technical science of human behaviour and the production,…

Dr Kathryn Rix Assistant Editor, House of Commons 1832–1945, History of Parliament An understanding of how Britain’s electoral system operated is crucial in getting to grips with many other aspects…

Dr Tom Crook Reader in Modern British History, Oxford Brookes University Following the loss of the American colonies in the 1780s, the British Empire began to shift away from a…

Dr Kathryn Rix Assistant Editor, House of Commons 1832–1945, History of Parliament By 1914, almost half a century after the first mass petition for women’s suffrage was presented to the…

Richard Gaunt Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham In the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, a wide-ranging debate about the nature of Britain’s political institutions began.…

Dr Kathryn Rix Assistant Editor, House of Commons 1832–1945, History of Parliament From the reflections prompted by the French Revolution in the closing decades of the eighteenth century to the…

Richard Gaunt Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham At the end of the eighteenth century, most politicians would have thought of themselves as Whigs, in that they supported…

Richard Gaunt Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham Religion played a prominent role in British politics during the long nineteenth century, determining both the terms upon which politics…

Dr Tom Crook Reader in Modern British History, Oxford Brookes University At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain’s central state assumed few other core responsibilities than defending the realm…

Richard Gaunt Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham Britain’s leading role in the defeat of France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1802, 1803–15) gave it a major…