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Mastering Modern British History
5th Edition
by Norman Lowe



Table of Contents

  1. Introduction 
  2. Britain under the Tories 1815-30 
  3. Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832 
  4. Whig reforms and failures 1833-41 
  5. Chartism 
  6. Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46 
  7. Domestic Affairs 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867 
  8. Lord Palmerston and foreign affairs 1830-65 
  9. The Crimean War 1854-56 
  10. Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857 
  11. Standards of living and social reform: factories, mines, public health, education, leisure, religion 
  12. Gladstone’s first ministry 1868-74 
  13. Disraeli and the Conservatives in power 1874-80 
  14. Victorian prosperity and depression 
  15. Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95 
  16. Ten years of Conservative rule 1895-1905 
  17. The growth of the trade unions and the Labour Party to 1914 
  18. The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939 
  19. The Liberals in power, 1905-14 
  20. Britain, the First World War and its aftermath 
  21. Politics in confusion, 1918-24 
  22. Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike 
  23. Political and Economic Crises, 1929-39: The second labour government (1929-31), the World Economic Crisis and the National Governments 
  24. Britain and the problems of Empire between the wars 
  25. Appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War: foreign affairs, 1931-9 
  26. Britain and the Second World War 1939-45 
  27. Labour in power: the Atlee governments 1945-51 
  28. The rise and fall of consensus 1951-79 
  29. The state of the people: social and cultural change since 1945 
  30. Britain and its parts; England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales 
  31. Britain and its place in the world after 1945 
  32. Britain and the end of Empire 
  33. Thatcherism and the New Right 1979-97 
  34. The Labour Party in opposition and the Blair/Brown years 1997-2010 
  35. The Conservatives in Opposition (1997-2010), in Coalition (2010-2015) and after 
Bonus material (previously chapters)

  • Foreign affairs 1815-30 
  • The Dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand before 1914 


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