Britain in the Nineteenth CenturyChallenging History encourages your students to take responsibility for their own learning through individual research. It motivates your students with accessible and attractive layouts, clear vocabulary and text which engages their interest, providing them with intellectual and analytical challenges. Evidence sections, talking points and well structured activities encourage students to think deeply about the issues presented to them. Covering all key aspects of European history, the Challenging History series provides a wealth of information from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. |
Contents
Background to a Century of Change | 2 |
Peels Prime Ireland Corn and the Collpase of | 6 |
Surviving the Postwar Crisis 181520 | 24 |
The End of the Old Constitution 182030 | 53 |
The Triumph of Reform | 79 |
Years of Whig Achievement and Conservative Renewal | 105 |
1 A real working government Peels second ministry | 131 |
2 The achievement of Daniel OConnell | 140 |
The Dominance of Lord Palmerston | 252 |
Gladstone Disraeli and the Second Reform Act | 273 |
Gladstone and Disraeli 186880 The Domestic Arena | 295 |
Foreign and Imperial Affairs in the Age of Gladstone | 319 |
British Aims and Objectives | 329 |
The Gladstonian Case Against Beaconsfieldism | 337 |
Gladstone Parnell and the Irish Question 186893 | 343 |
Liberal Decline and Conservative Ascendancy 18801900 | 361 |
a crisis within the Conservative Party | 148 |
Chartism Success or Failure? | 157 |
Women in Chartism | 180 |
The AntiCorn Law League Successful Politics of Pressure? | 186 |
Britain Europe and the World 181565 | 202 |
A Changing Society? | 229 |
Challenges to the Old Certainties | 387 |
The Labour Representation Committee | 397 |
2 Joseph Chamberlain destructive force and disappointed | 403 |
Acknowledgements | 410 |
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agitation alliance Anti-Corn Law League became Birmingham boroughs Britain British Cabinet campaign Canningites Castlereagh Catholic emancipation Chamberlain Chartist Church Cobbett Cobden Conservative Party constitution Corn Laws crisis defeat Derby Disraeli Disraeli's E.P. Thompson economic election electoral Empire England EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE foreign policy Foreign Secretary franchise Gladstone Gladstone's Grey historians Home Rule House of Commons industrial interests Ireland Irish labour Land landlords leader leadership League legislation Liberal Party Liverpool London majority Manchester measure middle class ministry movement nineteenth century Nonconformist O'Connell opinion opposition organisation Ottoman Empire Palmerston Parliament parliamentary reform Parnell Peel's Peelites Peterloo political politicians Poor Law population Prime Minister programme Protestant question radical Reform Act Reform Bill repeal resignation revolution Richard Cobden Russell Russian Salisbury Samuel Bamford seats Sir Robert Peel social society Source F TALKING POINT Tory Union vote voters W.E. Gladstone wages Wellington Whig whilst wider knowledge