London Politics, 1760-1914

MATTHEW CRAGOE is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on the history of nineteenth-century politics, including, most recently, Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales, 1832-1886 (Oxford University Press, 2004). ANTONY TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has written and published widely on the history of mid-Victorian radicalism. His latest book, Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain was published in 20

This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.