This work brings together key texts drawn from the history of suffrage advocacy and agitation. The whole issue of voting rights and representation is shown to be anchored firmly in the wider political culture of Britain and Ireland as well as the Empire as a whole.
Volume 5 : R. Lowe, Extracts from Speeches and Letters on Reform (1867) B. Disraeli, Speech on the Reform Bill (1867) The Final Reform Bill of Earl Russell (1866) E. Baines, Speech of Edward Baines (1864) W. E. Gladstone, ‘Speech on the Bill of Mr. Baines’, from Speeches on Parlimentary Reform (1866) G. C. Brodrick, ‘The Utilitarian Argument Against Reform’, from Essays on Reform (1867) A. V. Dicey, ‘The Balance of Classes’, from Essays on Reform (1867) C. H. Pearson, ‘On the Working of Australian Institutions’, from Essays on Reform (1867) An Old Colonist, Universal Suffrage in Australia (1867) E. Beales, Speech of Edmond Beales (1865) The Yorkshire Reform Conference (1862) C. Bradlaugh, Reform or Revolution (1867) E. Jones, Democracy Vindicated (1867) Reform Meeting in the Guildhall (1866)
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