Issue 57 March 2007

Giuseppe Mazzini

Robert Pearce highlights Giuseppe Mazzini’s role in the Risorgimento.

Hugh Dalton

John Plowright examines the career of one of the key ministers in Attlee’s postwar governments.

The Great Reform Act of 1832

Robert Pearce introduces the First Reform Act and asks why parliamentary reform succeeded in 1832 when earlier reform bills had failed.