Subject: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century (Keywords)

A kaleidoscopic picture of British society in the year of the Battle of Waterloo, evoking the sights, sounds and smells of a defining moment in modern British history.

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world. To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the U...

A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its forme...

'The Chartists' is a major contribution to our understanding not just of Chartism but of the whole experience of working-class people in mid-19th century Britain. The book looks at who the Chartists were, what they hoped for from the political power they strove to gain, and why so many of them fe...

This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues.

A history of the Conservative party and conservatism in its formative period. It incorporates recent research and provides perspectives of key figures and periods in the party's development, thus providing a basis for an appraisal of the party's 20th century performance.

Robert Blake offers not only an account of the Conservative Party's leaders but of the changing methods of party management, the many people who work behind the scenes, the geographical bases of the party and the typical Conservative outlook.

The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this dramatic but neglected story with cinematic vividness, episodic range, and a tragic denouement that undermines our romantic fantasies about Regency En...