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Peel, Russell and Reform

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Lord William Russell and his Wife, 1815–1846. Edited by BlakistonGeorgiana. London: John Murray, 1972. Pp. xvii + 566. £7·50.
Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830. By GashNorman. London: Longman, 1972. Pp. xx + 743. £8·00.
Pressure from Without in early Victorian England. Edited by HollisPatricia. London: Edward Arnold, 1974. Pp. ix + 334. £5·50.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Derek Beales
Derek Beales
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The Historical Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1974, pp. 873 - 882
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2 Young, ‘No Servile Tenure’ p. 48.

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8 This I take to be the message of the books already cited by Cowling, Jones, and Cooke and Vincent.

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22 Quoted in The Opinions of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, expressed in Parliament and in Public (2nd ed., London, 1850), p. 211,Google Scholar from the Commons debate of 26 Mar. 1834.

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29 Some related points are made in my article ‘Parliamentary Parties and the “Independent” Member, 1810–1860’ in Ideas and Institutions of Victorian Britain (ed. Robson, R.) (London, 1967), pp. 1–19,Google Scholar and in my review of Gash's Reaction and Reconstruction, Historical Journal, x (1967), 313–16.Google Scholar