This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.

MARC BAER Professor of History, Hope College, Michigan, USA DAVID CAMPION Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA TIM COOPER Researcher, St Andrew's University, UK DETLEV MARES Lecturer, Institute of History, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany MATTHEW McCORMACK Lecturer in History, University College Northampton, UK DAVID NASH Reader in History, Oxford Brookes University, UK BEN WEINSTEIN Researcher ALEX WINDSCHEFFEL Lecturer in Modern British History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK