Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act

A vivid account of the events surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 – the most important in the last 300 years of British parliamentary history. The new Whig government, under the influence of thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham and political circles such as that of Lord and Lady Holland, flirting with French Revolutionary ideas of political representation, and in the intellectual wake of the Napoleonic adventure, staggered everyone with a reform bill designed to wipe out rotten boroughs and enfranchise industrial towns.