Monday 15 July 2019

Suggested reading

These are some of the books that relate to this theme. Emsley and White are out of print, but they are well worth a read if you come across them. 

Linda Colley, Britons. Forging the Nation (1992)
Clive Emsley, British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815 (1979)
Antonia Fraser, Perilous Question. The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 (2013)
William Hague, William Pitt the Younger (2004)
Edward Royle, Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (2002)
Jenny Uglow, In These Times. Living Through Britain’s Napoleonic Wars (2014)
R. H. White, Waterloo to Peterloo (1957)

There are a couple of very useful websites
History of Parliament (very comprehensive, the result of years of work.) 
Victorian web (has been going a long time. Its layout now looks old-fashioned, but it remains an invaluable resource.)
The same applies to History Home, another very useful website, with an especial focus on the age of Sir Robert Peel.