This provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900. McWilliam assesses popular ideology and reveals a much richer social history emerging in the light of recent historiographical developments

Introduction; Part 1 The Old Analysis; Chapter 1 Reinterpreting the Queen Caroline Case; Chapter 2 From the Old Analysis to the New; Part 2 New directions; Chapter 3 The Peculiarities of Politics; Chapter 4 A Polity-Centred History?; Chapter 5 The Culture of Popular Radicalism I; Chapter 6 The Culture of Popular Radicalism II; Chapter 7 The Nation and Politics I; Chapter 8 The Nation and Politics II; Conclusion;

Rohan McWilliam is Lecturer in History at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.