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Matthew Roberts 2009

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I would like to thank my colleagues at Sheffield Hallam, especially Peter Cain, Marie Hockenhull Smith, Merv Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Clare Midgley and Antony Taylor, who shared their knowledge and enthusiasm. Beyond Sheffield, I have received help and encouragement from James Gregory, Jon Lawrence, Matthew McCormack, Jon Parry, Jane Rendall, Edward Royle and Philip Salmon. I also thank the editors of Parliamentary History for allowing me to use a review article that I wrote for them as the basis for . Finally, special thanks must go to Rosalind Wolstenholme for her tolerance, support and love.

MATTHEW ROBERTS

This book is a study of the mass political movements that came of age in England between the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, and explores the evolving relationship between these political movements and their popular supporters in urban England. Although there was nothing exclusively urban about many of these political movements, their epicentres were usually to be found in the burgeoning towns and cities of Victorian and Edwardian England, hence the focus in this book on the urban dimensions of political mobilization.