Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.
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Introduction; Part I. Petitions: 1. Petitions to the House of Commons I: scale and trends; 2. Petitions to the House of Commons II: issues; 3. Subscriptional cultures and petitionary documents; Part II. Petitioners: 4. The right to petition; 5. Petitioners I: collective identities; 6. Petitioners II: petitioning communities; Part III. Petitioning: 7. The practice of petitioning; 8. Mass petitioning; 9. Petitioning and representation; 10. Petitioning and political culture in an age of democratisation; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
