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• Racist Murder and Pressure-Group Politics (c2000), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and Ahmed Al-Shahi (PDF at Civitas)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Pressure Group Politics: The Case of the British Medical Association (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960), by Harry Eckstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987), ed. by Victor C. Falkenheim (HTML at Project MUSE)

• By Invitation Only: The Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), by Steven E. Schier (page images at Pitt)
• The Anti-Defense Lobby (in 3 parts; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1979), by William T. Poole
  • Part I (Center for Defense Information): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • Part II (The Peace Movement Continued): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • Part III (Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy): PDF and HTML at heritage.org

• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1920), by Harold J. Laski
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Alter-Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Amy E. Martin (PDF at Ohio State)

• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Influence in Early Stuart Elections, 1604-1640 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by John K. Gruenfelder (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by George M. Shulman (HTML at UC Press)

• Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Jon Mee
  • PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, c2021), by David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Total Recall: How Direct Democracy Can Improve Britain (c2008), by Nick Cowen (PDF at Civitas)

• Total Recall: How Direct Democracy Can Improve Britain (c2008), by Nick Cowen (PDF at Civitas)

• Voting Matters (1994-2013) (full serial archives)

• The Emigrants, by Charlotte Smith (HTML at unl.edu)

• Voting Matters (1994-2013) (full serial archives)

• Fairness and Freedom: The Final Report of the Equalities Review (2007), by Great Britain Equalities Review (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• The New Freewoman (complete run, 1913), ed. by Dora Marsden (full serial archives)

• Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon. George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries (4 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1852-1853), by Richard Grenville Temple and George Grenville, ed. by William James Smith
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Testament of a Prime Minister (London: G. Richards, 1904), by John Davidson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The "Damnatory Clauses" of the Athanasian Creed Rationally Explained in a Letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. (London et al.: Rivingtons, 1872), by Malcolm MacColl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• William Ewart Gladstone, by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
• Ritualism, by the Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone, M.P., Examined: The Anti-Catholic Charges Answered (London: Burns and Oates, 1874), by John Stewart McCorry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Angels and Ministers, and Other Victorian Plays, by Laurence Housman (Gutenberg text)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladston's Recent Expostulation, by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)

• Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue Concerning Government (second edition, 1681), by Henry Neville (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus, or, A Dialogue Concerning Government: Wherein, By Observations Drawn From Other Kingdoms and States Both Ancient and Modern, an Endeavour is Used to Discover the Present Politick Distemper of Our Own, With the Causes, and Remedies (London: Printed for S.I., 1681), by Henry Neville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• No Protestant-Plot: or, The Present Pretended Conspiracy of Protestants Against the King and Government, Discovered to be a Conspiracy of the Papists Against the King and His Protestant-Subjects (London: Printed for R. Lett, 1681), by Robert Ferguson, contrib. by Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Direct Action, by Solidarity Federation (partial serial archives)
• Organise! (partial serial archives)

• The British Empire (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1922), by T. A. Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• We're (Nearly) All Victims Now! How Political Correctness is Undermining Our Liberal Culture (c2006), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Liberalism, by L. T. Hobhouse (PDF at McMaster)

• Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by Bruce Smith (HTML at econlib.org)

• An Enquiry How Far Papists Ought to be Treated Here as Good Subjects; and, How Far They Are Chargeable with the Tenets Commonly Imputed to Them (London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1746), by Arthur Ashley Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Foundations of Society and the Land, by J. W. Jeudwine (PDF at McMaster)

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