George Julian Harney and the Chartists at Derby
(2022)
Journal Article
All Outputs (13)
Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel (2021)
Journal Article
In May 1961, the firm of Longmans published the first volume of Norman Gash's monumental life of Sir Robert Peel. Mr Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel before 1830 was hailed at the time as a landmark and has proved surprisingly durable as a... Read More about Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel.
A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle (2020)
Journal Article
The fourth duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) is recognised as one of the most prominent peers with electoral influence in early-19 th century Britain. This article considers the way in which he deployed that influence and the purposes to which it was tur... Read More about A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle.
Graphic satire and the UK in the long nineteenth century (2019)
Journal Article
'The diabolical Cato-Street plot': the Cato Street conspiracy, 1820 (2019)
Journal Article
Three Nottingham rebels in the age of reform, c.1800-1832 (2019)
Journal Article
Architecture and Politics in the Palace of Westminster, 1399 to the Present (2019)
Journal Article
The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair? (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 University of Birmingham. This article re-considers Nottingham’s role in the events immediately preceding the Pentrich Rebellion of 9–10 June 1817, as well as its reaction on the night of the Rebellion and during its aftermath. It does so in l... Read More about The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair?.
What if the Duke of Newcastle had died in 1817? (2017)
Journal Article
Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815 (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016 University of Birmingham. This article explores Nottingham's ambivalent attitude to the battle of Waterloo, which concluded hostilities between England and France in June 1815. It poses a contrast between Nottingham's muted reaction to Waterlo... Read More about Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815.
Sir Robert Peel as Actor-Dramatist (2016)
Book Chapter
In the early nineteenth-century, the chamber of the House of Commons was the stage upon which the theatre of national political action was played out and the cockpit of political drama between the leading personalities of the age. This chapter extend... Read More about Sir Robert Peel as Actor-Dramatist.
Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850 (2015)
Journal Article
This article considers the Dukeries estates of north Nottinghamshire in the hey-day of aristocratic power and prestige, from the mid-Georgian to the mid-Victorian period. It poses a contrast between visitors’ impressions of the area as one of constan... Read More about Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850.
Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 (2014)
Journal Article
This article considers Robert Peel’s role in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828. Traditionally overshadowed by the larger campaign to secure catholic emancipation in 1829, the repeal legislation assumes importance in Peel’s political... Read More about Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828.