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PUBLISHER: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781119511199
RRP: £19.99
PAGES: 204
PUBLICATION DATE:
April 6, 2018
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The Advent Of Democracy: The Impact Of The 1918 Reform Act On British Politics
Stuart Ball
In its centenary year, this volume is a study of the Representation of the People Act of 1918 which was a landmark in modern British history and the most substantial change ever made in the electoral system.Investigates how it nearly trebled the electorate, extending the franchise to all adult men and giving the vote to women for the first timeExamines its effects upon the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour Parties; in the three diverse regions of the West Midlands, Scotland, and IrelandDemonstrates its impact on the house of commons, the national press, and the evolution of the women s franchise from 1918 to full equality with men in 1928
Stuart Ball
Stuart Ball is emeritus professor of modern British history at the University of Leicester, where he taught from 1979 to 2016. He has published extensively on the history of the Conservative Party in the 20th century, and his most recent books are Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918 1945 (Oxford, 2013), and Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926 31 (Farnham, 2014). He has also has written a short biography of Churchill, Winston Churchill (2003), and edited the political diaries of Sir Cuthbert Headlam (2 vols, 1992 and 1999).
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