Essay and Seminar Reading List
Essay and seminar reading list
Seminar 1: Identity, Gender and Politics
Seminar 2: The Glorious Revolution
Seminar 3: Politics from the restoration to the death of Anne
Seminar 5: The Age of Oligarchy: Stability or Strife?
Seminar 6: Politics at the Accession of George III
Seminar 7: Radicalism and print culture
Seminar 8: The French Revolution
Seminar 9: Party politics before 1832
Seminar 10: The Pressure for Reform
Seminar 11: The Great Reform Act
General Texts
Recommended course text book: F O’Gorman, The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832
A Aspinall and E A Smith, English Historical Documents 1783-1832
D Beales, Political Parties in Nineteenth Century Britain Historical Association Pamphlet
A Beattie, English Party Politics
J Black, Britain in the Age of Walpole
J Black, Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, 1660-1800
J Black, The Politics of Britain, 1688-1832
I R Christie, Wars and Revolutions
L Colley, Britons: Forging a Nation, 1707-1837
H W C Davis, The Age of Grey and Peel
J W Derry, Reaction and Reform 1793-1868
E J Evans, Forging of a Modern State: Early Industrial Britain 1783-1870
N Gash, Aristocracy and People
G Holmes, The Making of a Great Power, 1660-1722
G Holmes and D Szechi, The Age of Oligarchy, 1722-1783
J R Jones, Country and Court, England 1658-1714
P Jupp, British and Irish Elections 1784-1831
P Langford, A Polite and Commercial People, England, 1727-1783
L Namier and J Brooke, House of Commons 1754-90
R Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century
W R Prest, Albion Ascendant: English history 1660-1815
R Sedgwick, House of Commons, 1715-1754
W A Speck, Stability and Strife, England 1714-1760
R Thorne, House of Commons 1790-1820
