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Corn, Catholics and the Constitution: The Tory Crisis of 1827-30

Graham Goodlad considers the reasons for the disintegration of the early nineteenth-century Tory Party, which had dominated British politics for more than four decades.

Graham Goodlad | Published in History Review Issue 43 September 2002

Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; satirizing Wellington and Peel extinguishing the Constitution for Catholic Emancipation.
‘Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox’, a cartoon satirising Wellington and Peel extinguishing the Constitution for Catholic Emancipation. 1829. Wellcome Collection.

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