A nation of petitioners : petitions and petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 /

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era...

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Main Author: Miller, Henry James, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Modern British histories.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Petitions to the House of Commons I : scale and trends -- Petitions to the House of Commons II : issues -- Subscriptional cultures and petitionary documents -- The right to petition -- Petitioners I : collective identities -- Petitioners II : petitioning communities -- The practice of petitioning -- Mass petitioning -- Petitioning and representation -- Petitioning and political culture in an age of democratisation -- Conclusion. 
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