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Article: Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act.(Book Review)
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Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act
Edward Pearce
Jonathan Cape 343 pp. 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-224-06199-2
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ON MARCH 1ST, 1831, Sir Robert Inglis, MP for Oxford University, rose to his feet to respond to a scheme that had just been outlined in the House of Commons by Lord John Russell. 'I approach the discussion of this question', he began, 'with a sensation of awe at the contemplation of the abyss, on the brink of which we stand, and into which the noble lord will, if successful, hurl us.' What could Russell have proposed? Regicide, perhaps, or the indefinite suspension of ...