Robert Saunders is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in political history and the relationship between Britain and Europe. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-67 and the co-editor, with Ben Jackson, of Making Thatcher’s Britain. He is currently writing a new history of the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. Dr Saunders has provided comment and analysis for a wide range of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN and NPR, and recently appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’ Robert Saunders1. The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s Malcolm Chase2. Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform Kathryn Gleadle3. 1867 and the Rule of Wealth Jonathan Parry4. The Second Reform Act and the Problem of Electoral Corruption Kathryn Rix5. The Second Reform Act and the Politics of Empire Alex Middleton6. The Irish Reform Act of 1868 Colin Barr7. ‘Pressure from Without’: Karl Marx and 1867 Gareth Stedman JonesIndex

Robert Saunders is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in political history and the relationship between Britain and Europe. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-67 and the co-editor, with Ben Jackson, of Making Thatcher’s Britain. He is currently writing a new history of the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. Dr Saunders has provided comment and analysis for a wide range of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN and NPR, and recently appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’ Robert Saunders1. The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s Malcolm Chase2. Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform Kathryn Gleadle3. 1867 and the Rule of Wealth Jonathan Parry4. The Second Reform Act and the Problem of Electoral Corruption Kathryn Rix5. The Second Reform Act and the Politics of Empire Alex Middleton6. The Irish Reform Act of 1868 Colin Barr7. ‘Pressure from Without’: Karl Marx and 1867 Gareth Stedman JonesIndex

Robert Saunders is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in political history and the relationship between Britain and Europe. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-67 and the co-editor, with Ben Jackson, of Making Thatcher’s Britain. He is currently writing a new history of the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. Dr Saunders has provided comment and analysis for a wide range of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN and NPR, and recently appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’ Robert Saunders1. The Popular Movement for Parliamentary Reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s Malcolm Chase2. Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform Kathryn Gleadle3. 1867 and the Rule of Wealth Jonathan Parry4. The Second Reform Act and the Problem of Electoral Corruption Kathryn Rix5. The Second Reform Act and the Politics of Empire Alex Middleton6. The Irish Reform Act of 1868 Colin Barr7. ‘Pressure from Without’: Karl Marx and 1867 Gareth Stedman JonesIndex