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Further Reading on the English Political System, Staffordshire Elections and Politics

Many of the quotations featured on the Staffordshire Politics homepages have been taken from the following publications:

Barker, Hannah and Vincent, David, Language, Print and Electoral Politics 1790-1832: Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Boydell Press, 2001)

Black, Jeremy, The Politics of Britain: 1688-1800 (Manchester University Press, 1993)

Briggs, John, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1173-1973 (1973)

Dickinson, H. T. ‘Popular Politics and Radical Ideas’, in A Companion to Eighteenth Century Britain, edited by H. T. Dickinson (Blackwell, 2006)

Kettle, J. Ann, ‘The Struggle for the Lichfield Interest: 1747-1768’, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 4th Series, Volume 6, edited by M. W. Greenslade (Staffordshire Record Society, 1970)

Lee, Stephen M., ‘Parliament, Parties and Elections 1760-1815’, in A Companion to Eighteenth Century Britain, edited by H. T. Dickinson (Blackwell, 2006)

O’Gorman, Frank, Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England 1734-1832 (Clarendon Press, 1989)

Richards, Eric, 'The Social & Electoral Influence of the Trentham Interest, 1800-1860' Midland History, Vol. III, No. 2 (1975)

Wedgwood, J. C., 'Staffordshire Parliamentary History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Volume 3 (1780-1841)', in Collections for a History of Staffordshire 1933, Part 1 pp. 1-122 (1934)