• ISBN13: 9781119489726
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: April 16, 2019
• Pages: 168
• Original Price: USD 39.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 236 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): World / European

About the Book This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century.

• The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process
• Chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure
• Includes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of 'pressure from without'

Richard Huzzey is a reader in history at Durham University. He has published Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (2012), and co-edited, with Robert Burroughs, a volume entitled The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2015). Alongside Henry Miller, he leads the Leverhulme Trust research project 'Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People, 1780-1918'.